Paul Poincy

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Paul Poincy (Andres Molinary, around 1900)

Paul E. Poincy (born March 11, 1833 in New Orleans , † November 14, 1909 there ) was an American painter and art teacher.

Life

Paul Poincy was born a Creole in New Orleans in 1833 . He came from an educated, wealthy family of French descent.

As a child, Poincy attended Jesuit schools in Grand Coteau , Louisiana , and St. Louis . From around 1852 to 1858 he studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts , with Gleyre , Cogniet and Rodolphe Julian . In January 1859 he came to his hometown and opened a studio with Richard Clague . After the outbreak of the Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Army . Then he returned to New Orleans and worked as a painter again. He was one of the initiators of the Southern Art Union, founded in 1880. In 1885 he founded the New Orleans Artists' Association with Bror A. Wikstrom, Andres Molinary and Achille Peretti, an organization that held annual exhibitions until 1905 and maintained an art school at which Poincy taught. He was a member of the selection jury for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition (1897).

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Paul Poincy mainly painted portraits (especially of children), landscape and genre pictures with motifs from New Orleans and religious representations. Much of his work has been exhibited in churches and public buildings in New Orleans. One of his best-known works is the large-scale painting Volunteer Firemen's Parade , which he created in 1872 together with Victor Pierson . Several paintings by Paul Poincy are in the possession of the Louisiana State Museum.

  • Elegant Southern Lady (oil on canvas, 1886)

  • Volunteer Firemen's Parade, March 4th 1872 (with Victor Pierson, 1872)

  • St. Claude and Dumaine Streets, Faubourg Tremé (1895)

  • Ladies Leaving the French Opera House (oil on canvas, 1895)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Seebold's (1879-1880)
  • Lilienthals (1883)
  • Artists' Association of New Orleans (1886-1887, 1890-1892, 1896-1897, 1899, 1901)
  • Tulane University (1892)
  • Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville (1897)
  • Moses & Son (1901)

literature

  • John A. Mahe, Rosanne McCaffrey: Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918 The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans 1987, ISBN 0-917860-23-3 , pp. 309-310.
  • Martin Wiesendanger, Margaret Wiesendanger: Nineteenth Century Louisiana Painters and Paintings. Firebird Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0911116533 , p. 85.

Web links

Commons : Paul Poincy  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d John A. Mahe, Rosanne McCaffrey: Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918 1987, pp. 309-310.
  2. ^ A b August P. Trovaioli, Roulhac B. Toledano, Betsy Swanson: William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter Pelican Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1589805095 , p. 101.
  3. ^ University of Southern Mississippi: The Southern quarterly 1992, Volume 31, p. 16.
  4. ^ A b Wiesendanger, Nineteenth Century Louisiana Painters and Paintings. P. 85.
  5. ^ Louisiana State Museum, Visual Arts Collection. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Poincy, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poincy, Paul E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1909
Place of death New Orleans