Louise Catherine Breslau
Marie Louise Catherine Breslau, actually Maria Luise Katharina Breslau ( born December 6, 1856 in Munich, † May 12, 1927 in Neuilly -sur- Seine) was a German -Swiss lithographer and illustrator pastel.
Life
Maria Luise Katharina was the daughter of the doctor Bernhard Breslau and his wife Catherine, Baroness von Brandenstein. In 1858 her parents moved to Zurich, since her father was offered at the University of Zurich the post of chief doctor of obstetrics and gynecology. After her father had died of infection had moved at work in December 1866 Luise Katharina was educated in a monastery in the vicinity of Lake Constance.
Your first drawing lessons she received from the painter Eduard Pfyffer, who advised her strongly to continue his studies in Paris. Accompanied by mother Wroclaw went to France in 1876 to educate yourself at Tony Robert -Fleury at the prestigious Académie Julian in Paris. At the Académie, the young artist moved by their great talent for drawing the attention of their teacher, but also the jealousy of some classmates, including the Russian painter Marie Bashkirtseff. In her diaries Bashkirtseff described the development phase of Breslau in detail until 1881 In 1879, Breslau was first exhibition held in the Salon de Paris, where she regularly participated in the follow- up to 1891.; 1889 and 1900 she was awarded the gold medal at the Paris World Exhibitions. During this time she opened her first studio in Paris and changed its name to Louise - Catherine Breslau.
By the end of the century, Paris was the artistic point of reference of Wroclaw, where she used friendship and exchange with Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin -Latour, Jules Bastien- Lepage and Jean -Louis Forain. On study trips to Brittany, she found the acquaintance of the Swedish painter Ernst Josephson, later she had a close relationship with the sculptor Emile -Antoine Bourdelle. From 1890 their sphere shifted to Switzerland, where she took until 1929 frequently participated in the National Art Exhibition. In 1900 she moved with her long-time colleague, the craftswoman Madeleine Zillhardt, in a studio house according to Neuilly -sur -Seine. Zillhardt was her muse, model, confidant and supporter. With the outbreak of the First World War, she lost the narrow Parisian contacts and increasing their artistic publicity. It was only in 1921 brought her the portrait of the philosopher Anatole France once again a greater public interest.
Louise -Catherine Breslau died on 12 May 1927 according to a long illness in Neuilly -sur -Seine. She was buried in the cemetery of the town of Baden, Canton of Aargau in addition to their mother.
Works (selection)
- Girlfriends (1881, Musée d' art et d' histoire, Geneva )
- Five O'Clock Tea (1883, Kunstmuseum Bern )
- Chez soi ou Intimité (1885, Musée d' Orsay, Paris)
- Backlight (1888, Kunstmuseum Bern )
- English artist (1881 )
- German teacher (1884 )
- Portrait of Gaetano Braga (1880 )
- Portrait of Jean Carriès ( 1886-87, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
- La vie pensive (1908, Musée cantonal des Beaux -Arts, Lausanne )
- The artist and her model (1921, Musée d' art et d' histoire, Geneva )