Alfred Philippe Roll

Alfred Philippe Roll ( born March 10, 1846 in Paris, † October 27, 1919 ) was a French painter.

Roll began his artistic career as an ornament and pattern designer. Later he became a pupil of the painter Jean -Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux -Arts. Rolls early works, such as Don Juan and Haydée after Byron ( Museum at Avignon ) were still very much in the shadow of his two teachers Bonnat and Gérôme. With his picture Toulouse on the Garonne ( Museum at Le Havre) - from the same creative period - themed Roll the summer floods in June 1875, and thus won a gold medal in 1877 at an exhibition of the Parisian salons.

Was this still influenced by the color Bonnat (eg, " The Martyrdom of St. Andrew " ) and the image structuring Gérôme (eg, " The Raft of the Medusa" ), now he put a turn in Rolls work, since are increasingly turning to naturalism.

Even the 1878 issued Feast of Silenus ( in the Museum at Ghent), but even more so the strike of the coal miners (1880, in the museum at Valenciennes ), was influenced by his style changed. With these pictures you can roll reported on social issues to speak; he, in turn, in 1885 create a painting: the work a building site in Suresnes on the Seine with stonecutters, masons and carpenters, grazed. This image was already carried out according to the principles of naturalistic light painting, and in the same styles also move his numerous portraits, genre figures and groups, landscapes and marines that are painted in a very rough manner only on the substantive effect.

He was since 1883 Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour.

At the age of 72 years, Alfred Philippe Roll died on 27 October 1919 in Paris.

Works (selection)

  • Don Juan and Haydée after Byron
  • Toulouse on the Garonne
  • Feast of Silenus
  • Work (1885 )
  • Strike of the coal miners (1880 )

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  • French Painter
  • Member of the Legion of Honour ( Knight )
  • Born in 1846
  • Died in 1919
  • Man
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