Jean-Jacques Scherrer

Jean -Jacques Scherrer ( born September 29, 1855 in Lutterbach, Haute- Rhin, † May 16, 1916 in Paris) was a French painter of Alsatian origin.

Life

As in 1871 with the Treaty of Frankfurt of the German - French war had ended, Scherrer voted for French citizenship. In the same year he went to Paris and became a student in the workshop of the sculptor Pierre -Jules Cavelier ( 1814-1894 ).

Later he moved to the École des Beaux -Arts (EBA ) and was, amongst others, taught by Alexandre Cabanel. Through its promotion Scherrer in 1877 invited to attend the big annual exhibition of the Salon de Paris.

1880 married Scherrer in Paris Mathilde Haquette, a porcelain painter of porcelain Sèvres, and had two children with her, Lucie- Marthe ( 1884-1979 ) and Jean (* 1887).

Scherrer died at the age of not quite 61 years, on 16 May 1916 in Paris and found his final resting place.

Honors

Works (selection)

• L' assassinat you maréchal Brune. , 1881.
• Beaurepaire, le capitulation de Verdun, le 2 septembre 1792. 1883.
• L' entrée de Jeanne d' Arc à Orléans.
• Isabeau de Bavaria. , 1889.
• Charlotte Corday.
• Rouget de L' Isle composant la Marseillaise.