Pierre-Ernest Prins

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Pierre-Ernest Prins (born November 26, 1838 in Paris ; † January 21, 1913 there ) was a French painter and sculptor.

Life

Pierre-Ernest Prins initially oriented himself towards the painters of the Barbizon School , of whom he particularly favored Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny . In the 1860s he was a regular guest in the artist's café Guerbois , where he met Édouard Manet , with whom he became a lifelong friend. In 1868 Manet portrayed the violinist Fanny Claus (1847–1877) for his famous painting The Balcony . Prins married Fanny Claus in 1869, whom he may have met through Manet. Other artist friends he for example in tourist restaurant du Père L'auberge Fournaise in Chatou met, belonged Albert Charles Lebourg and Armand Guillaumin .

Prins did not take part in any of the group exhibitions of the Impressionists from 1874 to 1886 and initially had no commercial success with his pictures. It was not until 1890 that the Georges Petit Gallery in Rue de Sèze dedicated an exhibition to him. In 1897, the art magazine La Revue des Arts paid tribute to the work of Pierre Ernest Prins and compared his work with those of Théodore Rousseau and Jean-François Millet . In addition to cityscapes, Prins mainly created landscapes. Here he mostly worked in pastel technique . In his pictures there are often motifs such as haystacks or villages of the Île-de-France , where he pays great attention to the representation of the sky and shows a preference for moods of the evening sun. His painting style was close to the impressionist painting of his friends and is influenced by symbolism in his late work .

Works

  • Self-portrait , drawing, whereabouts unknown
  • Soleil blanc sur la Manche, le soir , Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Pêcheurs à Saint-Valery-sur-Somme , Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Brume et soleil sur la Manche , Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Ciel breton au Pouldu , Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Sur la Manche, le soir à Berck , Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Le Lapin Agile , Carnavalet Museum, Paris
  • La Maison Fleurie , private collection
  • Meules au couchant , private collection

  • Le Lapin Agile

  • La Maison Fleurie

  • Meules au couchant

  • Ciel breton au Pouldu

  • Brume et soleil sur la Manche

literature

  • Association des Amis de Pierre Prins (ed.): Catalog général de l'œuvre de Pierre Prins: 1838–1913. Édition par l'Association des Amis de Pierre Prins, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-9507209-0-0 .
  • Pierre Courthion: Exposition Prins. Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris 1963.
  • Wildenstein Gallery (Ed.): Pierre Prins, 1855-1913. Wildenstein Publication, London 1975.
  • Pierre-Émile and Pierre-René Prins: Pierre Prins et l'époque impressionniste. Floury, Paris 1949.
  • Prins, Pierre-Ernest . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 406 .

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personal data
SURNAME Prins, Pierre-Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prins, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1913
Place of death Paris