Victor Charreton
Victor-Léon-Jean-Pierre Charreton (born March 2, 1864 in Bourgoin-Jallieu , † November 26, 1936 in Clermont-Ferrand ) was a French landscape painter of Post-Impressionism.
After studying law in Paris, he practiced in Paris and Lyon. But he decided to devote himself to painting.
In 1902 he moved to Paris, where he studied with Ernest Victor Hareux (1847-1909) and Louis Aimé Japy (1839-1916) and was influenced by them.
He found his inspiration in Paris and on his travels through France. He painted in Montmartre, in the Luxembourg garden, in the Montsouris park, in Provence and in Brittany . He also traveled to Algeria in 1905 and visited Spain , England , Belgium and Holland in 1913 .
Charreton made his debut in Lyon in 1894 with the painting “Matin a Montpeyroux” and later in the same year in Paris at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français with the “Soir d'Octobre”.
From 1910 he received prizes and medals, in 1910 an “honorable mention”, in 1912 a silver medal and in 1913 a gold medal. In 1903 Charreton was one of the founding members of the Salon d'Automne . He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1914 .
He participated in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad, in New York (from 1919 to 1925), Toledo (1926, 1934), Pittsburgh (1933), Cleveland (1934) and in Japan (1920, 1928). From 1919 to 1925 he worked as a teacher at the Académie Julian in Paris. With the painter Léon Boudal (1858–1934), pastor of Murol in Auvergne , he founded the Muroler school of painting. There is a monument to Victor Charreton in Murol.
In 1931 he founded a museum that was mainly dedicated to his paintings and is now called "Musée Victor Charreton".
Victor Charreton belongs to a generation of artists who, like the Impressionists before them, devoted themselves to landscape painting and paid attention to the influence of the seasons, light and colors.
literature
- Eugène Vial: Charreton, Victor . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 412 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Victor Charreton. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- Victor Charreton biography (digitized version )
- Musée des Peintres de l'École de Murol (digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Charreton, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Charreton, Victor-Léon-Jean-Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French post-impressionist landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bourgoin-Jallieu |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1936 |
| Place of death | Clermont-Ferrand |