Eva Gonzalès
Eva Gonzalès ( born April 19, 1847 in Paris, † May 5, 1883 ibid ) was a French painter of Impressionism.
Life
Eva Gonzalès grew up in a musically predisposed family. Her father Emmanuel Gonzalès who had Spanish ancestors, was a writer and a native of Belgium mother was a musician. In the living room of the family Théodore de Banville and Philippe Jourde, the director of the newspaper Siècle wrong.
At the age of 16 she started in 1865 to study drawing and painting in the studio of the painter Charles Chaplin, who had only female students. After an education at the state art academies was denied by the end of the 19th century women.
1869 moved into its own studio. By Alfred Stevens 1869 she met Édouard Manet know, the only student she was. During this time, Manet's Portrait of Eva Gonzalès arose. Herein it is shown sitting at his easel in front of a floral still life. 1870 she filed with the painting The horn player for the first time a work to the Paris Salon, where it was successfully added. The painting shows how many images Gonzalès from this period, the influence of Manet's work. Dark colors initially minted their range and a strong chiaroscuro contrast featured these early works. The horn is considered their artistic response to Manet's The Fifer. In the following years she took part in the Paris Salon repeated.
During the Franco-German War and the Paris Commune Eva Gonzalès held on in Dieppe, where she devoted himself to landscape painting. In 1872, they developed their own style and their images were increasingly colorful. Although Eva Gonzalès is generally classified as an Impressionist, she took as her teacher Manet, in none of the group part of the Impressionist exhibitions. She preferred subjects from everyday life. Interiors with women were especially her, and she took her models how many painters from the immediate family, often her sister Jeanne.
In her paintings she often portrayed women. In addition, some still life and landscape pictures were taken. In addition to the success at the Paris Salon she received positive reviews by Zacharie Astruc and Émile Zola.
In 1879 she married his friend Manet engraver and graphic artist Henri Guérard. Eva Gonzalès died very early age of 36 on May 5, 1883 of an embolism in childbirth after the birth of a son. Only five days before the birth, she had learned from Manet's death and regrets not being able to attend his funeral.
Works
- The horn player ( Villeneuve -sur -Lot, Musée Gaston Rapin ), 1870 | Oil on canvas, 130 x 98 cm
- Beach of Dieppe ( Dieppe, Château- Musée ), 1871, oil on canvas, 28.5 x 70 cm
- Loge in Theartre of Italy (Paris, Musée d' Orsay ), 1874, oil on canvas, 98 x 130 cm
- Awakening in the morning ( Kunsthalle Bremen), 1876, oil on canvas, 81.3 x 100 cm
- The milliner ( Art Institute of Chicago), about 1877, pastel and watercolor on canvas, 45 x 37 cm
- Nanny with child ( Washington, National Gallery of Art ), 1877 /78 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.4 cm
- Woman in White ( Washington, National Museum of Women in the Arts), 1879, oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm
- Reading in the forest ( Paris, Musée du Petit Palais ), 1880, oil on canvas
- The ride on the donkey ( Bristol City Museum & Arts Gallery ), 1880, oil on canvas
- On the water (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1880, oil on canvas