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Carl Peter Mazér (9 March 1807,
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– 27 July 1884,
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) was a Swedish painter, graphic artist, and photographer.


Biography

His father, Jean-Pierre Mazér (died 1829), was a silk weaver and stocking maker, originally from France. Johan Mazer, a noted merchant and musician, was his half-brother from his father's first marriage. At an early age, he became interested in painting, and was able to study with Gustaf Erik Hasselgren at the
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. In 1825, he accompanied his father to Paris and took lessons from
Antoine-Jean Gros Antoine-Jean Gros (; 16 March 177125 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the ...
; becoming his assistant and helping to paint the backgrounds on historical scenes. During the
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of 1830, he manned the barricades. From 1833 to 1835, he was in Italy, then returned to Sweden. His first exhibition, of twenty-five paintings, took place at the Royal Academy in 1836. In 1837, he spent some time in Finland, then went to
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. He would eventually spend fifteen years in Russia; living in Moscow and
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, where he worked as a drawing teacher. He also travelled in barges down the
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, from
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to
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, making sketches. His best known work from that period is a posthumous portrait of
Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...
, commissioned by , a close friend of Pushkin's and a noted art collector. In 1848, he visited Siberia, where he created a series of portraits of the revolutionaries who had been exiled there. In
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, when he attempted to paint a group portrait of and his family, the police stopped him and sent him out of the city, At the beginning of 1851, he opened a
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studio in Moscow, where he worked until the end of 1852; making copies of art works as well as taking portrait photographs. After returning to Stockholm in 1854, he had difficulty making a living from his art, and became exclusively involved with photography; creating a professional manual in 1864. He moved to Paris in 1876. After staying there for two years, he moved to Naples, where he died in 1884, aged seventy-six. His works may be seen at the
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, the , and the Hermitage, as well as several smaller ones. His unpublished memoirs and other manuscripts are in the collection of the
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, Stockholm."Mazer, Carl Peter"
brief biography @ Irkipedia (Irkutsk)


Selected paintings

File:Chinese man by K. Mazer.jpg, Portrait of a
Chinese Man File:Mazer Portrait of Tungus (1850).jpg, Portrait of a
Tungusic Man File:Mazer-Pushkin.jpg,
Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...
File:Mazer-Almqvist.jpg,
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist Carl Jonas Love Ludvig Almqvist (28 November 1793 – 26 September 1866) was a Swedish author, romantic poet, romantic critic of political economy, realist, composer and social critic. Biography Carl Jonas Love Almqvist was born in Stockhol ...
File:Mazer Portrait of Sigrid and Anna Mazer (1858).jpeg, Sigrid and Anna Mazer
(his nieces) File:Chinese traders by Carl Peter Mazer.jpeg, Chinese Tradesmen


References


Further reading

* ''C.P. Mazer: Nationalmuseum hösten 1973'', exhibition catalog,
Detailed biography
@ the '' Svenskt biografiskt lexikon''


External links


Brief biography
from the ''
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'' @
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Brief biography
@ Photographer.ru

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