Paul Joseph Bardou

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Paul Joseph Bardou (* 1745 in Basel , † 1814 in Berlin ) was a German portrait painter. He was active in Berlin all his life.

He was the son of the stocking weaver from Languedoc Antoine Bardou (1697–1783) and Elisabeth Suzanne Pederotta, who came to Berlin from Basel via Potsdam in the 1840s. Paul Joseph was born before they left Basel.

He was the younger brother of the sculptor Emanuel Bardou (1744-1818) and the uncle of the portraitist Karl Wilhelm Bardou (* 1744). He attended the Collége Français in Berlin , studied from 1756 at the Berlin Academy of Arts with Blaise Nicolas Le Sueur . In 1804 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts , which cemented his position as a creator. He died in Berlin in 1814.

As early as 1806, Johann Heinrich Füssli confused him with the portrait painter Johann P. Bardou, who was active in Warsaw and St. Petersburg .

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Also, many portraits of unknown people.

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SURNAME Bardou, Paul Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter and pastelist
DATE OF BIRTH 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1814
Place of death Berlin