Pierre-Victor Galland

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Pierre-Victor Galland (born July 15, 1822 in Geneva , † November 30, 1892 in Paris ) was a French illustrator, decorator and painter.

Life

Pierre-Victor Galland was trained by his father, a Parisian goldsmith, before he joined Henri Labrouste's atelier at the age of 16 , and then went on to study architecture for two years. In 1840 he decided to switch to decorative painting , which he learned first from Michel Martin Drolling and then from 1843 to 1848 in the studio of Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri .

He specialized in ceiling and wall paintings. His first major work in 1851/53 were paintings for a large palace near Constantinople , which his studio colleague Jacob Mélick designed for a rich Armenian. On his return trip he made a stopover in Italy, where he studied in particular the painter Veronese . Back in Paris he received several decorative commissions from private individuals in Paris, Lille and Marseille , and occasionally he also worked on public buildings and churches.

Galland's paintings can be found in the Pantheon , the Sorbonne and the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The ceiling paintings in the Palais des Marquis Casariera and the tympanum paintings above the chapels in the church of St-Eustache earned him a good reputation as a decorator . He received further commissions in Spain, London, New York, St. Petersburg and Germany.

Galland was a very versatile painter who also tried himself as a genre and landscape painter , as well as in the field of cabaret .

From 1873 he taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris as a professor of decorative arts. The chair was created especially for him. His commitment to a Reformation teaching principle that emphasized a connection between painting, sculpture and architecture met with fierce opposition. In 1877 he was appointed artistic director of the tapestry manufactory . However, he also worked for the Herter Brothers and created z. B. a ceiling painting for Lockwood-Mathews Mansion .

Galland is sometimes referred to as "Tiepolo of the bankers of the Second Empire". Since he mainly carried out private assignments, he remained largely unknown to the general public despite his extensive work. Few museums, e.g. B. in Nancy, Limoges, Nice, Roubaix and the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris own works by him. A retrospective of his works was shown in Roubaix and Beauvais in 2006/2007 .

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SURNAME Galland, Pierre-Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French illustrator, decorator and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1892
Place of death Paris