Auguste Brouet ( fr. Auguste Brouet ; October 10, 1872, Le Lila, Department of Saint-Saint-Denis , France — November 9, 1941, Paris ) - French engraver and book illustrator.
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| Genre | engravings |
| Study | Eugene Quinolo class |
| Style | Realism |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Style
- 3 Directories
- 4 Literature
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Biography
Auguste Bruet was born and raised in a poor family in one of the northeastern suburbs of Paris - Le Lila ( French Les Lilas ). For some time he was trained by a lithographer, received an art education in an evening drawing class by Eugene Kignolo (1858–1918), and also attended the studio of Gustave Moreau [4] . Since 1895 he earned a living by working with famous artists in the studio of Eugene Delatre; copied color prints. Around 1902, he began to write original etchings, sometimes of large sizes and in color, but more often these were small black and white works [5] .
In the 1920s, in the wake of interest in Renaissance painting, his etchings began to be in great demand both in France and in the United States [5] . At the same time, he completed a large number of book illustrations, [6] especially for Devambet, under the leadership of Edouard Chimot. The period of intense creative work ended in depression , from which the artist never recovered. Brue died in 1941 in poverty [7] .
Currently, the artist's works are stored in the British Museum , the Brooklyn Museum , the Dallas Museum of Art , the Cleveland Museum of Art , the Fitzwilliam Museum , the Louvre Museum , the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and others.
Style
The art of Auguste Bruet belongs to the classical tradition. Bruet was a stranger to the modernist trends developing in his time. His works are characterized by the following:
- expressive style of the picture, which is combined with the use of light and shadow;
- a sympathetic look at the people of the lower social strata, their daily activities and the shabby environment;
- inner restraint of work and a characteristic pensive mood in the drawings.
Bruet's themes were the circle of “little people” he found in Montmartre . In his works, he depicted prostitutes, dancers, domestic and circus scenes, acrobats, landscape, military life. Military motifs arose during the First World War.
An illustration master, Bruet drew them for dozens of volumes of books. His best works are for the books of Edmond de Goncourt - the novel "The Zemgano Brothers" [8] , Zhoris-Karl Huysmans - a collection of poems in prose "Vase with spices" [9] .
Directories
The works of Auguste Bruet are presented in the catalogs:
- catalog of Bruet's collections of works with his original etchings made before 1923 [10]
- catalog of Bruet's works in the National Library of France [11]
- online search catalog [12] of Bruet etchings, excluding color prints and illustrations
Literature
- Lucien Descaves, Souvenirs d'un Ours, Editions de Paris, 1946.
- Jean Heubert, La gravure et la lithographie françaises 104 (juin 1914) 196-202.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1027511945 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Auguste Brouet
- ↑ Heubert, Jean. Auguste Brouet (neopr.) // La Gravure et la Lithographie Française. - 1914. - June ( v. 104 ). - S. 196 .
- ↑ 1 2 Delteil, Loÿs. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes des XIXe et XXe siècles . - Paris: Dorbon-Aîné, 1925–1927. - Vol. 2.
- ↑ Hesse, Raymond. Auguste Brouet - étude; lettre-préface de Henri Focillon . - Paris: H. Babou, 1930.
- ↑ Descaves, Lucien. Souvenirs d'un ours. - Paris: Les Éditions de Paris, 1946.
- ↑ de Goncourt, Edmond. Les Frères Zemganno . - Paris: F. Grégoire, 1921.
- ↑ Huysmans, Joris-Karl. Le Drageoir aux épices . - 194, rue de Rivoli, Paris: les Graveurs modernes, 1929.
- ↑ Boutitie, Gaston. Auguste Brouet: catalog de son oeuvre gravé . - Paris: G. Boutitie, 1923.
- ↑ Laran, Jean. Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 / Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes / Jean Laran, Jean Adhémar. - Vol. Tome troisième, Bocquin-Byon. - P. 451 et ff ..
- ↑ Auguste Brouet - Etchings . Date of treatment October 4, 2014.