Impressionism - IV
Henri Gervex
1852 - 1929
Henri Gervex
(b Paris, 10 Sept 1852; d Paris, 7 June 1929).
French painter. His artistic education began with the Prix de Rome winner Pierre Brisset (1810–90). He then studied under Alexandre Cabanel at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his fellow pupils included Henri Regnault, Bastien-Lepage, Forain, Humbert (1842–1934) and Cormon; and also informally with Fromentin. Gervex’s first Salon picture was a Sleeping Bather (untraced) in 1873: the nude, both in modern and mythological settings, was to remain one of his central artistic preoccupations. In 1876 he painted Autopsy in the Hôtel-Dieu (ex-Limoges; untraced), the sort of medical group portrait he repeated in 1887 with his Dr Pean Demonstrating at the Saint-Louis Hospital his Discovery of the Hemostatic Clamp (Paris, Mus. Assist. Pub.), which celebrated the progress of medical science with a sober, quasi-photographic realism. Gervex’s most controversial picture was Rolla (1878; Bordeaux, Mus. B.-A.), refused by the Salon of 1878 on grounds of indecency, partly because of the cast-off corset Degas had insisted he include. The painting shows the central character in a de Musset poem, Jacques Rolla, who, having dissipated his family inheritance, casts a final glance at the lovely sleeping form of the prostitute Marion before hurling himself out of the window. As his friend, Manet, had done the year before with his rejected Nana (1877; Hamburg, Ksthalle), Gervex exhibited his work in a commercial gallery, with great success.
Portrait Mlle Valtesse de la Bigne
Café Scene in Paris, 1877
La femme au Masque, 1885, which garnered world-wide attention in a 1902 court case because Camille du Gast had been falsely accused of being the subject.
Cinq Heures Chez Paquin
Rolla
Ofelia
Femme Resuse a la Toilette
The Birth of Venus (1907)
Portrait of the Couturier Madame Paquin
Return from the Ball
Diane et Acteon
Fillette dans un champ de coquelicots
John Sargent
1856 – 1925
John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
Catrherine Vlasto
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Countess Laura Spinola Nunez del Castillo
El Jaleo
Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler
Expectancy
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
A Garden in Corfu
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Paul Helleu Sketching with his Wife
Carmela Bertagna
In a Garden: Corfu
Lady Agnew
Leaving Church, Campo San Canciano, Venice
Morning Walk
Mrs Wilton Phips
Mrs. Fiske Warren and Her Daughter Rachel
Nude Egyptian Girl
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Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon
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Spanish Dancer
Lovis Corinth
1858 – 1925
Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.
Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group's president. His early work was naturalistic in approach. Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionist movement, but after a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took on many expressionistic qualities. His use of color became more vibrant, and he created portraits and landscapes of extraordinary vitality and power. Corinth's subject matter also included nudes and biblical scenes.
Corinth was born Franz Heinrich Louis on 21 July 1858 in Tapiau, in the Province of Prussia in the Kingdom of Prussia. The son of a tanner, he displayed a talent for drawing as a child. In 1876 he went to study painting in the academy of Königsberg. Initially intending to become a history painter, he was dissuaded from this course by his chief instructor at the academy, the genre painter Otto Günther. In 1880 he traveled to Munich, which rivaled Paris as the avant-garde art center in Europe at the time. There he studied briefly with Franz von Defregger before gaining admission to the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he studied under Ludwig von Löfftz. The realism of Corinth's early works was encouraged by Löfftz's teaching, which emphasized careful observation of colors and values. Other important influences were Courbet and the Barbizon school, through their interpretation by the Munich artists Wilhelm Leibl and Wilhelm Trübner .
Except for an interruption for military service in 1882–83, Corinth studied with Löfftz until 1884. He then traveled to Antwerp, where he greatly admired the paintings of Rubens, and then in October 1884 to Paris where he studied under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian. He concentrated especially on improving his drawing skills, and made the female nude his frequent subject. He was disappointed, however, in his repeated failure to win a medal at the Salon, and returned to Königsberg in 1888 when he adopted the name "Lovis Corinth".
Self Portrait with his Charlotte Berend and Champagne Glass
1902
Self-portrait with Skeleton
1896
Self-portrait with Model (Selbstporträt mit Model)
1903
Mother and Child; Mutter und Kind
1906
Group of Friends
1904
Reclining Female Nude
1899
The Artist and His Family (1909)
Diogenes (1892)
Liegender weiblicher Akt (Lying female nude) Lovis Corinth
Lovis Corinth Die Nacktheit 1908
Lovis Corinth - Nude Girl on a Rug
Corinth Female nude
Verfuhrungn Lovis Corinth
Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), The Harem (1904)
Lovis Corinth Nude
The Fourteenth of July
Salome (1900)
The Blinded Samson (1912)
Susanna and the Elders (1923)
Ecce Homo (1925)
Nude Female (Nackte Frau)
1897
Weiblicher Akt mit Atelierschemeln (Female nude with studio stools)
1885
Der verlorene Sohnn (The lost son)
1891
Witches
The Trojan horse 1924
The Deposition
Heimkehrende Bacchanten
Die Versuchung des hl. Antonius
Ariadne on Naxos
The childhood of Zeus (Die Kindheit des Zeus)
c. 1905/6
Ulysses Fighting the Beggar
1903
Homeric Laughter
1909
The Temptation of St. Anthony
1897
Paradise
1911
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Cain (Kain)
1917
Nana, Female Nude (Nana, Weiblicher Akt)
Anders Zorn
1860 – 1920
Anders Leonard Zorn
(18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish painter. He attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. Among Zorn's portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. At the end of his life, he established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize in 1920.
Reveil (Awakening), the artist's wife
Lady with fur cape
1887
Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon
1897
The Painter Bruno Liljefors
1906
Woman bathing at Sandhamn
1906
Reveil (Awakening), the artist's wife
In the bedroom
1918
Castles in the Air
1885
Studio Idyll
1918
En premiär
1888
Max Liebermann
1847 – 1935
Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important collection of French Impressionist works.
The son of a Jewish banker, Liebermann studied art in Weimar, Paris, and the Netherlands. After living and working for some time in Munich, he returned to Berlin in 1884, where he remained for the rest of his life. He later chose scenes of the bourgeoisie, as well as aspects of his garden near Lake Wannsee, as motifs for his paintings. Noted for his portraits, he did more than 200 commissioned ones over the years, including of Albert Einstein and Paul von Hindenburg.
Liebermann was honored on his 50th birthday with a solo exhibition at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, and the following year he was elected to the academy.[2] From 1899 to 1911 he led the premier avant-garde formation in Germany, the Berlin Secession. Beginning in 1920 he was president of the Prussian Academy of Arts. On his 80th birthday, in 1927, Liebermann was celebrated with a large exhibition, declared an honorary citizen of Berlin and hailed in a cover story in Berlin's leading illustrated magazine. But such public accolades were short lived. In 1933 he resigned when the academy decided to no longer exhibit works by Jewish artists, before he would have been forced to do so under laws restricting the rights of Jews. His art collection, which his wife inherited after his death, was looted by the Nazis after her death in 1943.
In his various capacities as a leader in the artistic community, Liebermann spoke out often for the separation of art and politics. In the formulation of arts reporter and critic Grace Glueck he "pushed for the right of artists to do their own thing, unconcerned with politics or ideology." His interest in French Realism was offputting to conservatives, for whom such openness suggested what they thought of as Jewish cosmopolitanism.
Self portrait
Swimming boys
Women plucking geese
1871
Amsterdam Orphanage
1876
Free hour at the Amsterdam Orphanage
Beer Garden in Munich
1884
Spinning Workshop in Laren
1889
Samson and Delilah
1902
Parrot avenue
1902
The Yacht Race
1924
Potato gatherers
Paul-Albert Besnard
1849 – 1934
Paul-Albert Besnard
(2 June 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a French painter and printmaker.
Besnard was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel. He won the Prix de Rome in 1874 with the painting Death of Timophanes.
On 19 November 1879 he married the sculptor Charlotte Dubray (1854–1931). They had four children, of whom three were artists.
Until about 1880 he followed the academic tradition, but then broke away completely, and devoted himself to the study of colour and light as conceived by the Impressionists. The realism of this group never appealed to his bold imagination, but he applied their technical method to ideological and decorative works on a large scale, such as his frescoes at the Sorbonne, the Ecole de Pharmacie, the ceiling of the Comédie-Française (main theatre in Paris), the Salle des Sciences at the Hôtel de Ville, the mairie of the 1st arrondissement, and the chapel of Berck hospital, for which he painted twelve Stations of the Cross in an entirely modern spirit.
Portrait de Madame Roger Jourdain
1885
Baigneuse
c.1900
A Woman Smoking
Portrait of a Woman
Woman in Profile
After the ball
Femme nue vue de dos
1888
Une famille
1890
Portrait of sisters
1903
Sous Les Saules
1909
At The Opera
The Storm
Bather with Child and Swan by the Sea
1905
Valentin Serov
1865 - 1911
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Valentin Serov (b St Petersburg, 19 Jan 1865; d Moscow, 5 Dec 1911).
Russian painter, graphic artist and stage designer. As a child he lived in St Petersburg, but he made frequent trips abroad. In 1874 he travelled to Paris with his mother and frequented the studio of the Russian Realist painter, Il’ya Repin. In 1875 the art patron Savva Mamontov invited Serov and his mother to settle at ABRAMTSEVO outside Moscow, where he again had the opportunity to study under Repin and to meet other artists in the Mamontov circle. The Symbolist paintings of Mikhail Vrubel’ and the late Impressionist landscapes and figure studies of Konstantin Korovin he saw at Abramtsevo had a lasting influence on the young Serov. From 1880 to 1885 he studied at the Academy of Art, St Petersburg, under Pavel Chistyakov (1832–1919). During the 1880s Serov also travelled abroad and became aware of French Impressionism. He began to use bright colours in portraits of figures seen in dappled sunlight and shade, as in his portrait of Vera Mamontov, Girl with Peaches (1887) and a portrait of Mariya Simonovich, Girl in Sunlight (1888; both Moscow, Tret’yakov Gal.). Russians were so unfamiliar with French Impressionism at this time that when Pavel Tret’yakov immediately bought the Girl in Sunlight one of the older Realist artists complained that he was ‘infecting [his] gallery with syphilis’.
The Girl Covered by the Sun
1888
The girl with peaches
1887
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Portrait of Princess Zinaida Yusupova
1900-1902
The Rape of Europa
1910
Portrait of Ida Rubinstein
1910
Portrait of Princess Olga Orlova
1911
Frederick Carl Frieseke
1874 – 1939
Frederick Carl Frieseke (April 7, 1874 – August 24, 1939) was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight. He is especially known for painting complete naked white European adolescent or young adult women with untanned very white and very pale skin with the very white pale skin of a white European person who hasn't had any sun for several months and also lightened the skin with lead- and arsenic based cosmetics, both indoors and out.
Self-Portrait, 1901, Frieseke
Girl in Blue Arranging Flowers
Cherry Blossoms, ca. 1913
Summer, 1914
Sunbath 1918
1911 Garden in June
Reflections (Marcelle), by 1909
Nude Seated at Her Dressing Table, 1909
The Garden Parasol, ca. 1910
Hollyhocks, ca. 1912–1913
Nude in Dappled Sunlight, 1915
Seated Nude, 1920
The Bird Cage
1915 Torn Lingerie
1913 Before Her Appearance ( La Toilette )
1903 Before the Mirror
LADY ON A GOLD COUCH
1908 Through the Vines
1907c Portrait of Madame Gely
1907-14c The Parasol
1906 Rest
Autumn
Venus in the Sunlight, 1913
On the bank
Sunspots