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Virginie Déjazet
Pauline Virginie Déjazet (30 August 17981 December 1875) was a French actress, famous soubrette, and a well-known Travesti (theatre) , travesti performer. Life Déjazet was born in Paris in 1798, and made her first appearance on the stage at the age of five. It was not until 1820, when she began her seven years' connexion with the recently founded Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, Gymnase, that she won her triumphs in soubrette and "Breeches roles", which came to be known as "Dejazets." From 1828 she played at the Théatre des Nouveautés for three years, then at the Théâtre des Variétés, and finally she became manager, with her son, of the Folies-Déjazet, later renamed the Théâtre Déjazet. Here, at the age of sixty-five she still had success in youthful parts, especially in a number of Victorien Sardou, Sardou's earlier plays, previously unacted. Endnote: See Duval's ''Virginie Déjazet'' (1876). She retired in 1868, but then took a touring company to London's Opera C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Richter
Adrian Ludwig Richter (September 28, 1803June 19, 1884) was a German painter and etcher, who was strongly influenced by Erhard and Daniel Chodowiecki, Chodowiecki. He was a representative of both Romanticism and Biedermeier styles. He was the most popular, and in many ways the most typical German illustrator of the middle of the 19th century. His work is described as typically German and homely as are the fairy-tales of Brothers Grimm, Grimm, for whom he produced several woodcuts. Life He was born in Friedrichstadt (Dresden), Friedrichstadt, Dresden, the son of the engraver , from whom he received his training. The interest of his uneventful life centres within the circle of his art. As a painter Richter aimed at a thorough blending of the figure element with the landscape and may be judged by the following examples: "Harvest Procession in the Campagna" (1833) and three others in the Leipzig Museum: "Ferry at the Schreckenstein" (1836) and "Bridal Procession in Springtime" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |