Carlos Schwabe

Carlos Schwabe, completely Emile Martin Charles Schwabe ( born July 21, 1866 in Altona, † January 22, 1926 in Avon, Seine- et- Marne), was a German, Swiss later Symbolist painter and printmaker.

Life

Schwabe was born as the son of the merchant Georges Henri Charles Auguste and Jeanne Henriette Christine, born Bolten, in Holstein Altona. In 1870 his family moved to Geneva, where he attended from 1882 to 1884, the École des arts industriels. After studying art, he moved to Paris. There he crafted designs of wallpaper and learned the Symbolist art style, which expressed itself in his drawings and paintings. These he exhibited in Paris and also in Geneva, where he traveled frequently. Schwabe is classified as a precursor of Art Nouveau, as it uses extensive Blumenornamentik in his works of the 1890s and is often angels and the Virgin Mary.

Schwabe illustrated the novel Le rêve (1892 ) by Émile Zola, Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1900), Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande (1892 ) and Albert Samains Au Jardin de l'Infant (1908 ).

He was married twice, first to Marie- Adélaïde Vari ( 1891), then with Ombra d' Ornhjelm (1913). In 1888 he was the award of the Geneva Swiss citizenship.

Schwabe was awarded in 1900 at the Paris World's Fair, the Golden Medal. The following year he was appointed an Officer of the French Legion of Honour.

Schwabe lived for the rest of his life in France and died in Avon south of Paris.

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