Francois-Auguste Biard
(June 30, 1799 - June 20, 1882) was a French genre painter.
Born at Lyon, he traveled around the world, sketching on the way. He was particularly successful in rendering burlesque groups.
His painting, Scenes on the Coast of Africa, depicted on the right, was the inspiration behind Isaac Julien's short film The Attendant (1993). Biard was a known abolitionist against the Atlantic slave trade.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Auguste François Biard
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
Related Paintings of Francois-Auguste Biard :. | Watching the Tempest (mk44) | Natureza-morta, melancia | The Tribuna of the Uffizi (detail) | a group of musicians | Portrait of prince Alexander Kurakine | Related Artists: Alexandre-Denis Abel de PujolFrench, 1787-1861 Stefan LochnerGerman painter (b. ca. 1400, Meersburg am Bodensee, d. 1451, Köln
was a German late Gothic painter.
His style, famous for its clean appearance, combined Gothic attention towards long flowing lines with brilliant colours with a Flemish influenced realism and attention to detail.
He worked mainly in Cologne, Germany, and his principal work is the triptych of the Altar of the City Patrons (done in the 1440s, which is in the Cologne Cathedral), which represents the city in homage to the infant Jesus. The epitome of his style is Madonna of the Rose Bower (c. 1450, housed in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne), showing the Virgin and Child reposing in a blooming rose arbor and attended by Lochner's characteristic child Angels. kislind
|
|
|