Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

Charles (actually Marc -Charles -Gabriel ) Gleyre ( born May 2, 1806 Chevilly the canton of Vaud, † May 5, 1874 in Paris) was a Swiss painter.

Life

After an art training in Lyon and Paris, where he among other things, studied with Richard Parkes Bonington watercolor technique to Gleyre in 1828 went to Italy, where he sought to penetrate into the essence of the various schools and Giotto with the same care as copied Raphael as well as several historical genre paintings painted. From Italy he went in 1834 as a travel companion and subscribers to the industrialist John Lowell from Boston via Turkey southern Italy, Malta, Corfu and to the Orient and visited Egypt, Abyssinia, Syria. On his travels he drew sights, landscapes, costumes and folk scenes from nature.

Only after he had to cancel due to illness, the trip to the Orient, he came back to Paris in 1838. Before the audience Gleyre met for the first time in 1840 at the Paris Salon with his painting John on the Isle of Patmos. However, he won a resounding success only in 1843 with the Le Soir (Evening), a motif from the Nile, which is a poet who sees them go from the shore the personified dreams of his youth in a boat (also called Les illusions perdues - The lost illusions ).

He chose his own path from now on, by linking power of expression and depth of feeling with poetic ideality. He painted religious, historical and mythological images, he joined in the latter romantic mood with the severe and stylish design language of the ancient world.

Major works

  • La reine de Saba The Queen of Sheba (1839 )
  • The separation of the Apostles (1845 in the church of Montargis )
  • The nymph Echo ( 1846)
  • La danse des Bacchantes ( The Dance of the Bacchantes ) ( 1849)
  • Le Majeur Davel ( The Death of Major Davel ) (1850, destroyed in a fire in 1980 )
  • Boaz and Ruth
  • The Triumph of Helvetiers Divico over the Romans (1858 )
  • Hercules and Omphale (1863 )
  • Pentheus followed by the Maenads (1864 )
  • The Sorceress (1868 )
  • Sappho goes to bed (1867 )
  • Visite de la Reine de Saba (visit the Queen of Sheba ) ( 1871-1875 )

Student

Gleyre was in French art of the first idealists, not belonging to the school of Ingres, and became a noted teacher; in his studio, among others wrong Jean -Léon Gérôme, Albert Anker, Jean -Louis Hamon, Jean Lecomte du Nouy, Auguste Toulmouche, Edward Poynter, Claude Monet, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, Daniel Ridgway Knight, Alfred Sisley and James McNeill Whistler.

Note

Links and Bibliography

  • William Hauptman: Gleyre, Charles in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
  • Charles Gleyre. Le genie de l'invention ( exhibition catalog ), Musée cantonal des Beaux- Arts de Lausanne. 2006

Gallery

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The Major Davel before his execution ( 1850)

Sappho goes to bed (1867 )

Egyptian Temple

  • Painter ( Switzerland )
  • Person ( canton of Vaud )
  • Swiss
  • Born in 1806
  • Died in 1874
  • Man
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