Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin

Hippolyte Flandrin ( born March 23, 1809 in Lyon, † March 21, 1864 in Rome) was a French painter.

Life and work

Along with Henri Lehmann was Flandrin pupil of the painter Jean -Auguste -Dominique Ingres. Funded by his teacher to Flandrin involved at the age of almost 18 years in an exhibition of the Parisian salons and their submitted works were awarded the Prix de Rome. The price included a travel grant, which Flandrin used for a study trip to Italy.

After his return to Paris he devoted himself to religious paintings, and preferably created in strict, returning to the Pre-Raphaelite style paintings depicting especially the soulful expression of the faces is to boast. After he executed murals in St. John's Chapel of St. Severin with favorable success, he was commissioned to paint the choir of the church of St. Germain -des- Prés in Paris, where he gave one of his major works in his Entry into Jerusalem.

In 1853 he graced the side walls of the nave of the church of St -Vincent- de -Paul de Paris with frescoes in the form of a frieze, and was it a member of the Institute. In painting of the new basilica of St. Paul to Nîmes he approached the old Florentines and Sienese, in the Apsidenmalereien the Romanesque abbey church of Ainay at Lyon the style of the Ravenna mosaics, but without its classical form, as he recovered from Ingres ' school had to disclose. Excellent, he was also in effigy.

On the occasion of another stay in Rome Flandrin died two days before his 55th birthday on 21 March 1864 in Rome.

Flandrin was included in the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite on 31 May 1863.

Works (selection)

• Christ lets the children come to him
• Preaching of Savonarola in Florence
• Youth on the sea shore, Paris, Musee du Louvre
• The sorrowful mother

Polytes, fils de Priam, observant ecc. (1833 /34)

La Florentine ( 1860)

La Jeune Grecque (1863 )