Pierre Eugène Grandsire
Pierre Eugène Grandsire (born March 18, 1825 in Orléans , † 1905 in Paris ) was a French painter .
life and work
Pierre Eugène Grandsire was a student of the painters Jules Noël and Jules Dupré . Around 1852 he went on a study trip to Venice. Further trips later took him to Austria, Flanders and Spain. His favorite subjects were mainly romantic forest landscapes and views of port cities, whereby he repeatedly chose motifs from the countries he visited - for example Venice. In France he painted views of the surroundings of Paris, the Vosges , Brittany and Normandy . The writer George Sand in Promendes near the village praised his pictures from the Creuse valley . Typical for the works of Grandsire are effective lighting, which was very well received by his contemporaries. From 1850 he exhibited regularly in the Salon de Paris and received bronze medals for his works at the World Exhibitions in Paris in 1889 and Paris in 1900 . In addition to paintings, Grandsire created watercolors, pastels and drawings. Many of his illustrations have appeared in magazines such as Le Magasin pittoresque, Le Monde illustré, Le Tour du Monde and L'Illustration . In Paris he lived for many years on Quai Voltaire in house number 25.
Award
- 1874 - Appointment as Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
Works in public collections
- Soleil couchant à Anvers , Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans , Orléans
literature
- Grandsire, Pierre Eugène . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 513 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Georges Lanoë: Histoire de l'Ecole française de paysage - depuis Chintreuil jusqu'à 1900 . Société Nantaise d'Editions, Nantes 1905, pp. 182 (French, books.google.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eugène Grandsire in the Catalog interministériel des Dépôts d'Oeuvres d'Art de l'Etat (CDOA). Retrieved October 13, 2014 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grandsire, Pierre Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1905 |
| Place of death | Paris |