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Pierre Puvis dem Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 månad 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter best known for his mural painting, who came to be known as 'the painter for France'. He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work influenced many other artists, notably Robert Genin. Puvis dem Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as "an art made of reason, passion, and will".
Puvis de Chavannes was born Pierre-Cécile Puvis in a suburb of Lyon, France. He was the son of a mining engineer. Being descended from an old noble family of Burgundy, he later added the ancestral 'de Chavannes' to his name. Throughout his life, however, he spurned his Lyon origins, preferring to identify han själv with the 'strong' blood of the Burgundians, where his father originated. Puvis de Chavannes was educated at the Amiens College and
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Composition
More than 100 descendants of Edouard, Marie-Antoinette and Joséphine Puvis de Chavannes, brothers and sisters of the artist, are members of this Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Committee. They are all entitled beneficiaries of the author's rights.
The President, the Secretatry and the Treasurer represent each one of the three Pierre Puvis de Chavannes'lines of descendants and heirs. Some historians and researches are also members of the Committee.
Chairman: Bertrand Puvis de Chavannes
Vice-Chairman: Louise dArgencourt
Treasurer: Bernard Jordan.
Director of Bernard Jordan gallery - Paris / Zurich and Jordan-Seydoux Drawings & Prints Berlin
Secretary: Catherine de Vaugelas.
Consultant in real estate enterprise.
- Honourable members : Yvonne Emery, Serge Lemoine***, Dominique Lobstein****, François Blanchetière*****
* Bertrand Puvis de Chavannes: Specialist of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, he particularly identified and dated the artist's drawings i
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Forgotten Master
You can be conservative in art, but then history leaves you behind. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes founded the French artist society Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and painted so many public commissions he was known in his day as “the painter for France.” Yet poor Pierre has all but disappeared from the canon of popular art history.
A stolid loner, Pierre Puvis had no classical education, but worked in a way Émile Zola described as “art made of reason, passion, and will.” Puvis’s artwork was rigorous and logical, and most often commissioned as murals for public spaces. His paintings are quiet, but beautiful, with elegant composition and soft flattened hues reminiscent of Giotto’s pastel frescos. So why did we forget about him?
Puvis worked during a cultural divide in France. After the French revolution of 1789, the Royalists hoped to return France to its traditional values, and Puvis became their voice. His meditative classical wor