Pierre Jean David d'Angers

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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein - Pierre Jean David D'Angers (1830)
David d'Angers, 1853

Pierre Jean David , called David d'Angers (born March 12, 1788 in Angers , † January 5, 1856 in Paris ) was a French sculptor and medalist .

Life

He received his first lessons in drawing from his father, a wood carver. Around 1800 he came to Paris , where he initially earned his living by stone work and was later accepted into the studio of the sculptor Philippe-Laurent Roland (1746–1816). In 1810 the painter Jacques Louis David took him into his training studio free of charge, while his hometown gave him an annual grant of 500 francs .

Musée David d'Angers, Angers
Grave of David d'Angers - Pere Lachaise Cemetery

In 1811 David d'Angers' relief Death of Epaminondas was awarded the Prix ​​de Rome by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture . Associated with this award was a study visit to the Villa Medici in Rome . There he took mainly antiquity as a model and also worked for some time in Antonio Canova's studio, which it a rococo colored classical animated style.

This was followed by a short stay in London, where an English client asked David d´Angers to create a design for a memorial to the Battle of Waterloo . The artist, injured in his patriotic feelings, then turned his back on England and returned to Paris in 1816, where he soon developed a lively activity. With his first work, the statue of Louis Condé for the court in the Palace of Versailles , a work full of sparkling life and a daring movement that was unusual at the time, he immediately set himself in sharp contrast to the prevailing classical trend and stuck to realism, apart from small fluctuations, with a strong, steadily increasing emphasis on physiognomic expression until his death.

The fruitfulness of his imagination and the ease in technical work favored an extremely extensive activity, which, however, was not infrequently lost in decorative volatility.

In 1828 he visited Weimar , in 1834 Munich , Stuttgart , Berlin and Dresden . The result of these study trips were the busts of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from the first, the busts of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling , Johann Heinrich Dannecker , Ludwig Tieck and Christian Daniel Rauch , all of which were modeled in colossal size. The bust of Goethe, which the artist sent the poet as a gift in 1831, is now on display in the library in Weimar .

From 1835 to 1837 d'Angers occupied himself with the decoration of the pediment at the Panthéon in Paris, in which he grouped the most famous men in France since the revolutionary era around the fatherland. Over the years his interest in the human physiognomy grew to such an extent that he hunted down all famous men and at least recorded their features in medallions , the most complete collection of which, 550 in number, is in the Louvre .

In politics he was a radical opposition man, he edited Bertrand Barères memoirs together with Hippolyte Lazare Carnot and was also a member of the Constituent Assembly from 1848. After the coup d'état of Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) on December 2, 1851, he was exiled from France and later received permission to return and died on January 5, 1856 in Paris. In his hometown a museum was dedicated to him (Galerie David d'Angers), in which a large part of his work can be seen. A statue (by Hubert Noël) was also erected for him there.

His students include Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse and Paul Gayrard .

Works (selection)

David d'Angers at work on the bust of Ludwig Tieck , painting by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein .

literature

  • Henri Jouin: D'Angers, sa vie, son œuvre. Ses écrits et ses contemporains. Plon, Paris 1878.
    • 1. Vie du maître, ses contemporains.
    • 2. Ecrits du maître, son œuvre sculpté.
  • Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 34.

Web links

Honoré de Balzac funerary monument , Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
Commons : Pierre Jean David d'Angers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Louvre Paris

  • cartelen.louvre.fr Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 1833 Esquisse en bronze non patiné pour la statue de Philadelphie H.: 0.40 m .; L.: 0.16 m .; Pr .: 0.12 m.
  • cartelen.louvre.fr Armand Carrel (1800–1836) bronze ,. : 0.57 m .; L.: 0.17 m .; Pr .: 0.14 m.
  • cartelen.louvre.fr Bonchamp 1824 bronze, height : 0.19 m .; L.: 0.22 m .; Pr .: 0.13 m.
  • cartelen.louvre.fr Gilbert Esquisse en terre cuite pour un tombeau H.: 0.06 m .; L.: 0.33 m .; Pr .: 0.16 m.
  • cartelen.louvre.fr La Liberté 1839 Bronze H.: 0.57 m .; L.: 0.23 m .; Pr .: 0.17 m.
  • cartelen.louvre.fr La Reception du duc d'Angoulême aux Tuileries 1827 Esquisse en terre cuite H.: 0.25 m .; L.: 0.45 m .; Pr .: 0.06 m.
  • cartelen.louvre.fr Victoire devant un trophée d'armes européennes vers 1823 Terre cuiteH. : 0.35 m .; L.: 0.25 m .; Pr .: 0.07 m.
  • cartelen.louvre.fr Victoire devant un trophée d'armes orientales Vers 1823 Terre cuiteH. : 0.33 m .; L.: 0.24 m .; Pr .: 0.06 m.
  • cartelen.louvre.fr L'Enfant à la grappe 1845 Marbre H.: 1.31 m .; L.: 0.55 m .; Pr.: 0.48 m.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: The images in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 34.

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personal data
SURNAME David d'Angers, Pierre Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES David, Pierre Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Angers
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1856
Place of death Paris