Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes:
The white rock
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes:
The Dream , 1883

Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (born December 14, 1824 in Lyon / Rhône , † October 24, 1898 in Paris ) was a French painter . Today his work is generally assigned to symbolism , but this must appear questionable in view of the establishment of this art movement by a significantly younger generation. He is the author of numerous easel paintings and at the same time the creator of extensive wall paintings for public buildings.

Life

Pierre Puvis de Chavanne came from a middle- class family and enjoyed a solid classical education before he - attracted by painting - undertook his first trip to Italy and visited Henry Scheffer's studio in Paris for a year . He only discovered his true calling on the occasion of his second trip to Italy , accompanied by Louis Bauderon de Vermeron (1809–1870). He owed his meeting with Eugène Delacroix to him, who accepted him as a student for a few weeks shortly before his studio was closed. He then studied with Thomas Couture for several months .

In 1852 he set up his own studio on Place Pigalle , which he used throughout his life. He worked there, based on the model, among his friends, including the painters Alexandre Bida (1813–1895) and Louis-Gustave Ricard (1823–1873) as well as the engraver Victor Florence Pollet (1811–1882). Eugen Napoleon of Sweden studied with him from 1887 to 1889 .

The jury of the Paris Salon rejected the persistent painter for eight years before he finally achieved his breakthrough in 1861 with the Concordia and the Bellum , but ultimately in 1881 with his work Le pauvre pêcheur . However, it was not until 1887 that Pierre Puvis de Chavanne became known through the acquisition of this work by the French government for the Museum de Luxembourg (now on display in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris ).

The intimate relationship with his model, the later painter Suzanne Valadon, said to Puvis de Chavannes, is not clearly proven .

Deeply affected by the death of his long-time girlfriend and muse Marie Cantacuzène two months earlier, whom he met in 1856 but only married in 1897, Pierre Puvis de Chavanne died in 1898 at the age of 73. It rests in the old cemetery of Neuilly-sur-Seine .

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His wall paintings attracted attention, some of which can be seen in the town halls of Paris and Poitiers , the Auditorium Maximum of the Sorbonne University and the Paris Panthéon, and in the USA at the Boston Public Library . His paintings can be found in many European and American galleries.

Awards

Prix ​​Puvis de Chavannes

This prize, founded in 1926, is awarded by the National Society for Fine Arts (Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts). Previous winners include a. Wilhelm van Hasselt (1941), Tristan Klingsor (1952), Maurice Boitel (1963), Pierre-Henry (1968), Louis Vuillermoz (1969), Daniel du Janerand (1970) and André Hambourg (1987).

literature

  • Russell T. Clement Four french Symbolists. A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis , Westport / London 1996.
  • Joachim Kaak Untimely - Puvis de Chavannes in the Boston Public Library , Sieveking Verlag, Munich October 2014, ISBN 978-3-944874-13-5 .
  • Arcadia by the shore: the mythic world of Puvis de Chavannes , catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Bunkamura Museum of Art (Tokyo) from January 2 to March 9, 2014 and the Shimane Art Museum (Matsue) from March 20 to June 16 2014, ed. v. Aimée Brown-Price, with contribution by Bertrand Puvis de Chavannes, Tokyo / Matsue 2014.
  • Aimée Brown-Price Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , 2 vols., New Haven / London 2010.
  • Kerstin Thomas : World and mood at Puvis de Chavannes, Seurat and Gauguin. In: Passagen / Passages German Forum for Art History, ed. by Andreas Beyer , Berlin / Munich 2010.
  • Puvis de Chavannes. Une voie singulière au siècle de l'Impressionnisme , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Musée de Picardie in Amiens from November 5, 2005 to March 12, 2006, published by Matthieu Pinette, Amiens 2005.
  • Jennifer L. Shaw Dream States. Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France , New Haven / London 2002.
  • From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso: toward modern art , catalog for the exhibition of the same name at Palazzo Grassi (Venice), ed. Serge Lemoine et al., Venice 2002.
  • Puvis de Chavannes au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon , catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon from October 1 to December 6, 1998, ed. v. Dominique Brachlianoff, Lyon 1998.
  • Brian Petrie Puvis de Chavannes , Aldershot / Vermont 1997.
  • Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from February 25 to May 29, 1994, Aimée Brown Price (ed.), Zwolle 1994.
  • Dictionnaire de la peinture française , Librairie Larousse, 1989, revised edition from 1991, Paris, ISBN 2-03-740011-X .
  • Stefan Germer Historicity and Autonomy. Studies of murals in France in the 19th century. Ingres, Chassériau, Chenavard and Puvis de Chavannes , in: Studies on Art History, Volume 47, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1988.
  • Puvis de Chavannes. 1824–1898 , catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Grand Palais (Paris) from November 26, 1976 to February 14, 1977 and the Galerie nationale du Canada (Ottawa) from March 18 to May 1, 1977, Secrétariat d'État à la Culture and Éditions des Musées Nationaux under the general commissioner direction of Louise d'Argencourt (Ottawa) and Jacques Foucart (Paris) (ed.), Paris 1976 / presented in the English translation by The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 1977.
  • Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition , catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Art Gallery of Ontario from October 24 to November 30, 1975, ed. v. Richard J. Wattenmaker, Toronto / Ontario 1975.
  • Joseph Ishikawa Moderne Malgré Lui: The Phenomenon of Puvis de Chavannes , Art Journal 27: 4, summer 1968.
  • Robert Goldwater Puvis de Chavannes. Some Reasons for a Reputation, Art Bulletin March 28, 1946.
  • René Jullian L'Oeuvre de jeunesse de Puvis de Chavannes , Gazette des beaux-arts, November 1938.

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personal data
SURNAME Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre Cécile (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon , Rhone
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1898
Place of death Paris