Jules Robert Auguste

Jules Robert Auguste ( born January 5, 1789 in Paris, † April 15, 1850 ) was a French painter and sculptor of romantic classicism and achieved mainly through Orientalist motifs success.

Life and work

Jules Robert Auguste was born in a family of goldsmiths. He studied from 1806 at the prestigious École des Beaux -Arts in Paris. In 1810, Auguste won the Prix de Rome of the Académie des Beaux -Arts in the " sculpture". The award given was associated with a scholarship and a multi-year stay in Rome.

Through his later travels through Greece, Egypt, the Middle East and Morocco in the years 1815-1817 Auguste is a pioneer and promoter of Orientalism. In his Eastern-inspired works - mostly pastels and watercolors - is proving Auguste as a pendant Eugène Delacroix '. He is also because of his generous dealing with the colors as a precursor of Impressionism.

The movement of Orientalism came from France and was led primarily by Eugène Delacroix and Gustave Flaubert ( Salammbô ) in the way. Many painters from all European countries resorted to this trend, including Léon Belly, Théodore Chassériau, Rudolf Ernst, Ludwig German, Eugène Fromentin, Charles Gleyre, Carl Haag, William Holman Hunt, Leopold Carl Müller, Henri Victor Regnault, Pierre- Auguste Renoir and Horace Vernet.

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