Jules André

Jules André ( born April 19, 1807 in Paris, † August 17, 1869 ) was a French landscape painter.

Life and work

André was born in 1807 in Paris, was a pupil of the painter André Jolivard and Louis Etienne Watelet. Later, he made ​​an extensive study tour of southern France and the Pyrenees.

1831 André was invited to participate in the great exhibition of the Parisian salons. At age 27 he made his debut there with a work that received an honorable mention from the official art criticism.

Later André Belgium and Germany traveled, where he - was particularly impressed by the Rhine - in their own words. From 1845 to 1856 he worked for the Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres; even the most difficult time of the February Revolution of 1848, he was on the payroll.

At the age of 65 years, the painter Jules André died on August 17, 1869 in Paris.

Andrés entire artistic work is characterized by a at this time not necessarily usual realism. Here, a genre scenes are always kept full of atmosphere; sometimes even with a dose of romance. His commissioned works for Sèvres stood by the other works in anything. His works are now in the possession of art museums in Toulouse and Beaune.