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Jean Achard (auto Racer)
Jean Achard may refer to: * Jean Achard (painter) Jean Alexis Achard () (17 April 1807 – 2 October 1884) was a French painter. Biography Born in Voreppe, Isère, into a farming family, Jean Alexis Achard was self-taught and started his career as a clerk for a lawyer. He began his apprenti ... (1807–1884), French painter. * Jean Achard (racing driver) (1918–1951), French race-car driver, journalist, and member of the French Resistance. {{hndis, Achard, Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Achard (painter)
Jean Alexis Achard () (17 April 1807 – 2 October 1884) was a French painter. Biography Born in Voreppe, Isère, into a farming family, Jean Alexis Achard was self-taught and started his career as a clerk for a lawyer. He began his apprenticeship by copying paintings at the Museum of Grenoble. He then attended the free municipal school of Grenoble, and met the Lyon school painters who gave him his first tutelage. Isidore Dagnan was his teacher from 1824 to 1830. At 27, he moved to Paris and copied the Dutch masters at the Louvre. He made an expedition organized by the St. Simonians and thus lived in Egypt between 1835 and 1837 with his friend Victor Sappey. He bought landscapes and genre scenes when he came back to France. Thus, he exhibited at the Salon (Paris) in 1838, ''Vue prise aux environs du Caire'', and then regularly thereafter, as in 1843 with ''Vue de la vallée de Grenoble''. In 1846, he attended the Barbizon School and became friends with the painters Jean- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Achard (racing Driver)
Jean-Jacques Grosman, known as Jean Achard (15 March 1918 – 14 July 1951) was a French race-car driver and journalist and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Biography Achard was born in Paris on 14 July 1918. When the Nazis invaded France, Achard, like many Frenchmen, took up arms for the French Resistance, eventually becoming editor-in-chief of one of the many resistance newspapers, "Debout" (French for "On Our Feet"), which was founded by Claude Julien, another member of the French Resistance. Achard eventually became the Chairman of the ''Fédération nationale française des anciens combattants''("French National Federation of Former Combatants"). He made his racing debut in a supercharged Maserati 1500. Achard was successful in the 1946 and 1947 racing seasons, but in June 1947 he crashed on the first lap, while the V12 Delahaye 155 that he had used in 1946 was lent to Levegh for the race. Achard drove the Delahaye again on 13 July 1947. That sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
