Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes ( born December 14, 1824 in Lyon / Rhône, † October 24th 1898 in Paris) was a French painter. Apart from his early, under the influence of the Romantic paintings and some simple portraits of his work is attributable to the symbolism. He created many murals for public buildings.
Life
Pierre Puvis de Chavanne was born into a family belonging to the upper middle class and enjoyed a solid classical training before - attracted by the painting - a first trip to Italy and took in Paris a year visited the studio of Henry Scheffer. His true calling, he discovered only on the occasion of his second, accompanied by Louis de Bauderon Vermeron (1809-1870) undertaken Italy trip. This he owed to the encounter with Eugène Delacroix, who received him shortly before the closure of his studio a few weeks as a student. Then he studied for several months with Thomas Couture.
In 1852 he set up his own studio on the Place Pigalle, that he used throughout his life. He worked there, according to the model, in the circle of his friends, to whom he counted the painter Alexandre Bida (1813-1895) and Louis- Gustave Ricard (1823-1873) and the engraver Victor Florence Pollet ( 1811-1882 ). From 1887 to 1889 Eugen Napoleon studied from Sweden with him.
The jury of the Paris Salon rejected the stubborn painter from eight years before he was finally in 1861 with the Concordia and the Bellum, but ultimately in 1881 with his work " le pauvre pecheur " The breakthrough came, however, only in 1887 through the acquisition of this work by the French Government for the Luxembourg Museum ( now exhibited in the Musee d Orsay ) was known.
Not clearly demonstrated the Puvis de Chavannes is reputed intimate relationship with his model, the later painter Suzanne Valadon.
Deeply affected by the death occurred two months earlier his long-time girlfriend and muse Marie Cantacuzene he met in 1856, but had married in 1897, Pierre Puvis de Chavanne died in 1898 at the age of 73 years. He is buried in the Old Cemetery of Neuilly -sur -Seine.
Work
Attention has been given its murals, some of which can be seen at the town halls in Paris and Poitiers, the Sorbonne and the Panthéon in Paris and in the USA at the Boston Public Library. His paintings are found in many European and American galleries.
Awards
Prix Puvis de Chavannes
This 1926 Award honors from the National Society of Fine Arts ( Société Nationale des Beaux -Arts ). Among the previous winners include, inter alia, Wilhelm van Hasselt (1941 ), Maurice Boitel (1963 ), Pierre -Henry (1968), Louis Vuillermoz (1969 ), Daniel du Janerand (1970 ) and André Hambourg (1987).