Gustave Geffroy

Gustave Geffroy, ( born June 1, 1855 in Paris, † April 4, 1926 ) was a French journalist, art critic, historian and writer and one of the ten founding members of the Académie Goncourt.

Life

Geffroy was released in September 1886 by the Brittany island of Belle - Ile to Paris to a study of the prisons Napoléon III. to make. There he happened to meet the painter Claude Monet, whom he admired and with whom he became friends.

He was one of the few critics who judged Paul Cézanne's work justice in his lifetime and without reservation. In 1895, painted by Cézanne Portrait Geffroys had arisen, however, the Cézanne Reserve left in an unfinished state, because he was not satisfied with this.

In 1897, L' enfermé Geffroy, in which he reported on the life of the French revolutionary Auguste Blanqui published. As an employee of the newspaper La Justice, from 15 January 1880 he met Georges Clemenceau, who was a good friend to him and made ​​him in 1908 as director of the Gobelins tapestry factory. He held this office until his death.

A street of the 13th arrondissement of Paris bears his name.

Major works

  • Le Coeur et l' esprit (1894 )
  • Hermione Gilquin (1907 )
  • La Comédie bourgeoise (1922 )
  • Cécile Pommier. ( 1) L' Éducation spiritual ( 2) La Lutte des classes (2 volumes, 1923)
  • Bernard Palissy (1881 )
  • Le Statuaire Rodin ( 1889)
  • La Vie artistique (8 volumes, 1892-1903 )
  • Rubens ( 1902)
  • Les Musées d'Europe ( 11 volumes, 1906-1908 )
  • Claude Monet ( 1920)
  • René Lalique (1922 )
  • Sisley ( 1923)
  • Auguste Brouet: catalog de ​​son oeuvre grave (2 volumes, 1923)
  • Charles Meryon (1926 )
  • Corot (see d )
  • Daumier (see d )
  • L' enfermé (1897 ) texts as PDF
  • La Bretagne (1905 )
  • Clemenceau (1918 )
  • Constantin Guys, l' histories du Second Empire (1920 )
  • Notes d'un journaliste: vie, littérature, théâtre (1887 ) texts as PDF
  • Pays d' Ouest (1897 )
  • Les parisiennes Minutes, 2 heures. La Cité et l' île Saint- Louis ( 1899)
  • L' Apprentie, drame historique en 4 actes et 10 tableaux, Paris, Théâtre de l' Odéon, January 7, 1908
  • Les Bateaux de Paris ( 1903)
  • Les parisiennes Minutes. 7 heures. Belleville ( 1903)
  • Images du jour et de la nuit ( 1924) texts as PDF
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