Charles Marville

Charles Marville ( born July 12, 1813 in Paris, † June 1, 1879 Paris, Charles François Bossu actually ) was a French photographer.

Life

Originally trained as a painter, engraver and illustrator, Charles Marville was known as a landscape and architectural photographer.

His first known photographs are portraits of his family and an architecture point of view, which were published in 1851 by Blanquard - Evard. He traveled to Italy, Germany and Algeria and used paper and glass plate negatives.

Late 1850s, the city of Paris Marville, the old quarter of the city commissioned before the transformation and modernization in order of Napoleon III. (conducted by Georges- Eugène Haussmann ) to be documented. He photographed new and renovated buildings ( Paris Opera, Bois de Boulogne ), but also many old streets and buildings before their destruction. In 1862 he was appointed " official photographer of Paris". As "Photograph of the Kaiser Museum of the Louvre ", he worked on drawing reproductions especially of Ingres.

Exhibitions

• From 2 October 2010 to January 30, 2011 you could use some of his photographs at the Museum Folkwang in Essen in the exhibition " Pictures of a Metropolis, The Impressionists in Paris."
• 2013/2014: Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, then: Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.