Pierre Pignolat

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Pierre Pignolat (born May 22, 1838 in Geneva ; † March 12, 1913 there ) was a Swiss painter of French origin. He was mainly active in landscape painting , but also painted still lifes and portraits .

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After an apprenticeship as an engraver in Geneva, Pierre Pignolat studied at the Geneva Art Academy ( École des Beaux-Arts de Genève ) with Barthélemy Menn . For many years he practiced (in addition to his artistic activity) various professions in order to make a living. In 1880 he was appointed professor of figure drawing at the Geneva Art Academy (as the successor to the painter Auguste Baud-Bovy ), and from 1881 as adjunct professor. As part of this teaching activity, which he held until 1910, he trained a whole generation of painters from the Geneva School, including Maurice Barraud and Edouard Vallet.

Pignolat has made a name for himself above all as a master of paysage intimate and plein-air painting , following Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and the Barbizon School . As a contemporary of the Impressionists, he brightened the colors of his landscapes in his later work. His pictures show a certain similarity to the early work of Ferdinand Hodler (also a Menn student).

Pignolat remained a loner all his life and was not influenced by the various tendencies in painting at the turn of the century ( symbolism , cubism , expressionism ).

His works can be found in various Swiss museums, in particular the Musée d'art et d'histoire Geneva and the Museum Oskar Reinhart in Winterthur.

literature

  • Daniel Baud-Bovy: Pierre Pignolat. In: Pignolat - Rehfous. New Year's Gazette 1914, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Zurich 1914.
  • Vera Huber: Swiss landscape painter - The intimate landscape in the 19th century. Zurich 1949, pp. 38–40.
  • Arnold Neuweiler: La peinture à Genève de 1700 à 1900. Geneva 1945.
  • Vernay François Joseph, Pierre Pignolat. In: Nos Anciens et leurs Œuvres. Vol. 18, Geneva 1918, pp. 37-54.

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personal data
SURNAME Pignolat, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1913
Place of death Geneva