Pierre-Victor Galland

Pierre -Victor Galland ( born July 15, 1822 in Geneva, † November 30, 1892 in Paris) was a French painter of Swiss origin.

Life

Pierre -Victor Galland was first with his father, a goldsmith, trained, before he decided to study architecture and eventually became a painter. He specialized in ceiling and wall paintings. Galland worked in France and in the USA. Galland's paintings are in the Pantheon to see the Sorbonne and at the Hotel de Ville of Paris.

At the École des Beaux Arts ( EBA) in Paris, he taught as a professor of decorative arts. The chair was specially created for him. However, he also worked for the Herter Brothers and created, for example, a ceiling painting for Lockwood -Mathews Mansion.

Galland is sometimes called " Tiepolo of the bankers of the Second Empire ." A retrospective of his work was seen in 2006/2007 Roubaix and Beauvais.