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François Sabatier-Ungher
Marie Jean Baptiste François Sabatier (2 July 1818, Montpellier - 1 December 1891, near Lunel-Viel) was a French philanthropist, art critic and translator. He changed his name to Sabatier-Ungher after his marriage to the Austro-Hungarian opera singer, Caroline Ungher. Biography His father was a wealthy land owner from Languedoc, who died just before his birth, so he was raised by an uncle, the Abbé Roques. Not long after beginning his studies at a Jesuit college, he declared his intention to become a writer and poet; running away to Paris to pursue that goal. He arrived there in 1833 and found encouragement from Alfred de Vigny. He also made acquaintances in the art world, including and Edmond Wagrez (1815-1882), both of whom would accompany him to Rome in 1838. While there, he befriended several more French artists who were residing at the Villa Medici, notably Dominique Papety, and was introduced to the philosophy of Charles Fourier. During this trip, he met the Austri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Realism (art Movement)
Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution. Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the early 19th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead, it sought to portray real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy, and not avoiding unpleasant or sordid aspects of life. The movement aimed to focus on unidealized subjects and events that were previously rejected in art work. Realist works depicted people of all classes in situations that arise in ordinary life, and often reflected the changes brought by the Industrial and Commercial Revolutions. Realism was primarily concerned with how things appeared to the eye, rather than containing ideal representations of the world. The popularity of such "realistic" works grew with the introduction of photography—a new visual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Von Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works that he had left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on ''Xenien'', a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents of their philosophical vision. Early life and career Friedrich Schiller was born on 10 November 1759, in Marbach, Württemberg, as the only son of military doctor Johann Kaspar Schiller (1733–1796) and Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller (1732–1802). They also had five daughters, including Christophine, the eldest. Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tell (play)
''William Tell'' (german: Wilhelm Tell, ) is a drama written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804 in literature, 1804. The story focuses on the legendary Swiss people, Swiss marksman William Tell as part of the greater Swiss struggle for independence from the House of Habsburg, Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century. Gioachino Rossini's four-act opera ''Guillaume Tell'' was written to a French language, French adaptation of Schiller's play. Composition The play was written by Friedrich Schiller between 1803 and 1804, and published that year in a first edition of 7000 copies.''Tell-Freilichtspiele Interlaken''. Since its publication, Schiller’s ''William Tell'' has been translated into many languages. Friedrich Schiller (who had never been to Switzerland, but was well informed, being a historian) was inspired to write a play about the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell by his wife Lotte, who knew the country from her personal experience. After his friend, Johann Wolfgang Goeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Gregorovius
Ferdinand Gregorovius (19 January 1821, Neidenburg, East Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia – 1 May 1891, Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria) was a German historian who specialized in the medieval history of Rome. Biography Gregorovius was the son of Neidenburg district justice council Ferdinand Timotheus Gregorovius and his wife Wilhelmine Charlotte Dorothea Kausch. An earlier ancestor named Grzegorzewski had come to Prussia from Poland. Members of the Gregorovius family lived in Prussia for over 300 years, and produced many jurists, preachers and artists. One famous ancestor of Ferdinand's was Johann Adam Gregorovius, born 1681 in Johannisburg, district of Gumbinnen. Ferdinand Gregorovius was born at Neidenburg, East Prussia (now Nidzica, Poland), and studied theology and philosophy at the University of Königsberg. In 1838, he joined the student association, the Corps Masovia. After teaching for many years, Gregorovius took up residence in Italy in 1852, where he remained for over twen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Ottin
Auguste-Louis-Marie Jenks Ottin (1811–1890) was a French academic sculptor and recipient of the decoration of the Legion of Honor. Early life Ottin was born and died in Paris, where he was a pupil of David d'Angers and of the École des Beaux Arts. Ottin was a friend of Théodore Chassériau, a pupil in the atélier of Ingres, who in 1833 produced a black chalk portrait of Ottin. (Presented to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 2006.) Ottin obtained the Grand Prix de Sculpture at the Concours of 1836 with his statue of "Socrate Buvant la Ciguë.".Obituary, "August Louis Marie Ottin," ''New York Times,'' January 11, 1891 Exhibitions Ottin was responsible for the assembly in 1834 of the vast ''surtout de table'' of hunting vignettes, commissioned for the Tuileries Garden by Louis-Philippe's heir, Prince Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans, Ferdinand-Philippe, duc d'Orléans, and entrusted to the supervision of Claude-Aimé Chenavard, who gave much of the sculptural work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward). At any given point in time, approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are being exhibited over an area of 72,735 square meters (782,910 square feet). Attendance in 2021 was 2.8 million due to the COVID-19 pandemic, up five percent from 2020, but far below pre-COVID attendance. Nonetheless, the Louvre still topped the list of most-visited art museums in the world in 2021."The Art Newspaper", 30 March 2021. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the Medieval Louvre fortress are visible in the basement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Fabre
The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault ''département''. The museum was founded by François-Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter, in 1825. Beginning in 2003, the museum underwent a 61.2 million euro renovation, which was completed in January 2007. It is one of the main sights of Montpellier and close to the city's main square, the Place de la Comédie. The museum's national importance is recognised by it being classified as a ''Musée de France'' by the French Ministry of Culture. History The town of Montpellier was given thirty paintings in 1802 which formed the basis of a modest municipal museum under the Empire, moving between various temporary sites. In 1825, the town council accepted a large donation of works from Fabre and the museum was installed in the refurbished ''Hôtel de Massillian'', officially opened on 3 December 1828. Fabre's generosity led others to follow his example, notably Antoine Valedau who donat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moritz Hartmann
Moritz Hartmann (15 October 1821 – 13 May 1872) was a Bohemian-Austrians, Austrian poet, politician and author. Biography Hartmann was born of Jewish parentage at Duschnik (now Trhové Dušníky) in Bohemia. His maternal grandfather, Isaac Spitz, served as ''Av Beit Din, av beit din'' in Bolesławiec, Bunzlau. As a young man, Hartmann abandoned Judaism although he never formally converted to Christianity. Having studied philosophy at Prague and Vienna, he travelled in south Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and became tutor in a family at Vienna. In 1845, he proceeded to Leipzig and there published a volume of patriotic poems, ''Kelch und Schwert'' (1845). Fearing in consequence prosecution at the hands of the authorities, he abided events in France and Belgium, and after issuing in ''Leipzig Neuere Gedichte'' (1846) returned home, where he suffered a short term of imprisonment. In 1848, he was elected member for Leitmeritz district in the short-lived Frankfurt parliament, Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Mosselman
Alfred Mosselman or Alfred Mosselmann (1810–1867) was a Belgian aristocrat and industrialist who made a fortune in canal- and road-building. He was also a patron of the arts, particularly of his long-time lover Apollonie Sabatier Apollonie Sabatier (born Aglaé Joséphine Savatier; 8 April 1822 – 3 January 1890) was a French entertainer, artist's model and courtesan, who became a salon hostess and Bohemianism, bohemian muse to many of the French artists of 1850s Paris. .... 1810 births 1867 deaths Belgian nobility 19th-century Belgian businesspeople Belgian philanthropists Regents of the Banque de France 19th-century philanthropists 19th-century industrialists {{Belgium-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollonie Sabatier
Apollonie Sabatier (born Aglaé Joséphine Savatier; 8 April 1822 – 3 January 1890) was a French entertainer, artist's model and courtesan, who became a salon hostess and Bohemianism, bohemian muse to many of the French artists of 1850s Paris. Biography Aglaé Joséphine Savatier was born in Charleville-Mézières, Mézières. Her mother was Marguerite Martin who worked as a laundress for Count Louis Harmand d'Abancourt, Aglaé's biological father. The count arranged after Aglaé's birth that army sergeant André Savatier, who was stationed near the village, become her stepfather. Martin and Savatier were married in Paris on October 27, 1825. The family moved to Paris, where Aglaé started singing at the Palais Garnier, Opéra Garnier after school. She changed her name to Apollonie and became a Model (art), painter's model and posed for the statue ''Woman Bitten by a Serpent, Femme piquée par un serpent'' (1847) by Auguste Clésinger which is currently on display at the Musée ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Painter's Studio
''The Painter's Studio: A real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral life'' (''L'Atelier du peintre'') is an 1855 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Courbet. It is located in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. Courbet painted ''The Painter's Studio'' in Ornans, France in 1855. "The world comes to be painted at my studio," said Courbet of the Realist work. The figures in the painting are allegorical representations of various influences on Courbet's artistic life. On the left are human figures from all levels of society. In the center, Courbet works on a landscape, while turned away from a nude model who is a symbol of Academic art. On the right are friends and associates of Courbet, mainly elite Parisian society figures, including Charles Baudelaire, Champfleury, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and Courbet's most prominent patron, Alfred Bruyas. The 1855 Paris World Fair's jury accepted eleven of Courbet's works for the Exposition Universelle, but ''The Painter's S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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