Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur ( born March 16, 1822 in Bordeaux, † May 25 1899 in Thomery ) was a French animal painter.
Life
Rosa Bonheur is one of the most important animal painters at all. She came from a family of artists, received her first and only lessons from her father and specialized early on a small genus: animal painting. However, unlike many of her colleagues and meet societal role down she realized the painting from the outset as a profession, not as a pastime, and determined their role, following the male model, on the basis of their professional activity.
For this self-understanding of the views of her father contributed. The character masters and landscape painter Raymond Bonheur was a fan of the early socialist Saint-Simonian movement, whose doctrine was the belief that men and women have the same abilities and therefore the same rights, and stated that the social progress crucially on the emancipation of women depended.
In addition to her education have contributed to the self-understanding of her artistic painter successes and their homosexuality. As a lesbian woman who lived with her lover, she had not only distance, but an alternative to the traditional role model.
Bonheur excited first in 1841 with two small animal figures in their hometown sensation. Their reputation grew through the image, the herd, which was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848. More importantly, the image of the following year was that the plowing oxen (now in the Musée d' Orsay, Paris). The horse market was in 1853, the main salon (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The hay harvest ( in Luxembourg) 1855 approaches more of the landscape, which made them stand out later in her paintings more.
The horse image that had justified their world fame, acquired the North American railway king Cornelius Vanderbilt and gave it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Your Cup is best illustrated in the individual animal figure, and this side of her art she has formed by proficient study to high perfection. That the emphasis here on the realism of the appearance, the unvarnished and far from any idealization natural truth rests, must be emphasized. The artist always preferred the heavy peasant races. Her pictures are especially appreciated in England. In her last year she became friends with the American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke which she portrayed several times. She died at 77 years, and was buried in Paris. In her will, she had determined Klumpke to their heir and executor. This gave the French state in 1933 numerous works of Rosa Bonheur, which are now on display at the Musée de l'Atelier de Rosa Bonheur at Château de By.
Her brother, Auguste Bonheur ( 1824-84 ) was a landscape painter. His few animal parts act as opposed to works by his sister rather " smooth" and " characterless ".
Works
- Horse fair / The Horse Fair, 1853, oil on canvas, 88 x 183 cm, North Sea Museum - Nissenhaus, Husum
- Horse fair / The Horse Fair, in 1853 or 1855, oil on canvas, 244 x 506 cm, Metropolitan Museum, New York
- Horse fair / The Horse Fair, 1855, oil on canvas, 120 x 254 cm, National Gallery, London
Note: The location of the paintings or collections related to the year 1889 These may be located somewhere else today. .