Jean Paul Laurens
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| Birth | 1838 Fourquevaux |
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| Deaths | 1921 Paris |
| Nationality |  France |
| Activity (s) | Painter |
| Master | Cogniet Leon , Alexandre Bida |
| Artistic movement | Academic painting |
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Jean-Paul Laurens, born in Fourquevaux ( Haute-Garonne ) on 28 March 1838 and died in Paris on 23 March 1921 , is a painter and sculptor French.
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Biography
Pupil of Leon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida , Jean-Paul Laurens is emblematic of the art academic in its twilight. It would be very unfair to all present that as a painter "firefighter" among others: his erudition, rigor, and policy positions that make up his paintings and his undeniable talent do stand out clearly.
Belief and a republican anticlericalism displayed, Laurens has mainly dealt with topics both historical and religious leaders, staged a dramatic and served by a hyper-realistic technique. He is fluent in the vacuum representation in painting which gives his paintings a number of suggestive power impressive and can you imagine the void that is about Robert the Pious in the foreground creates a gap between the viewer and the subject as if the public was at the theater.
They foreshadow perhaps the murals of early cinema. Laurens was also the author of major design projects: steel vault at the City Hall of Paris , The Death of St. Genevieve at the Pantheon in Paris , the ceiling of the Theatre de l'Odeon ( 1888 ), Hall of the Famous Capitole de Toulouse. World-class designer, he illustrated stories including the Merovingian time of Augustin Thierry. He was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1891.
Teacher liked by his students at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Academie Julian , he had two painters son, Paul Albert Laurens ( 1 870 - 1 934 ) and Jean-Pierre Laurens ( 1875 - 1932 ) to be both teachers at the Academy Julian.
College Jean-Paul Laurens at Ayguesvives bears his name.
His students
- Maurice Victor Achene , French (1881-1963).
- George Barbier , French (1882-1932).
- Henri Cain , French (1857-1937)
- George Dufrnoy , French (1870-1943).
- Andr Dunoyer de Segonzac French, (1884-1974).
- Emmanuel Fougerat , French (1869-1958).
- Albert Herter , American (1871-1950).
- Rene Schtzenberger , French (1860-1916).
- Surand Gustave , French (1860-1937).
- Paul Vayson , French (1842-1911).
- Max Vollmberg , German (1882-1819?).
- Charles Wislin , French (1852-1932)
- Teodoro Braga , brasilien (1872-1953)
- Alfred Garth Jones , English (1872-c1944)
Works
- Death of the Duc d'Enghien, 1872, Muse des Augustins, Toulouse
- The Agitator of Languedoc, 1887
- L'Interdit
- Issuance of the walled Carcassonne
- Hostages, 1896
Gallery
Death of Tiberius (1864).
Pope Formosa and Stephen VII at the Council mortis (1870).
The Duc d'Enghien in the ditches of Vincennes (1873).
The Excommunication of Robert the Pious (1875, Muse d'Orsay ).
Issuance of the walled Carcassonne (1879).
The Emperor Honorius (1880).
The Pope and the Inquisitor (1882).
The last moments of Maximilian (1882).
The Agitator of Languedoc (1887).
St. John Chrysostom and the Empress Eudoxia (1894).
The Hostages (1896).
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Sources
Desjardins (MH), painters in the land of cliffs from 1830 to 1940, editions of the cliffs, Fecamp, 2004 Internal Links
- Biography by Ferdinand Fabre
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