Rodolphe Bresdin
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Rodolphe Bresdin was a French draughtsman
and engraver
, born in Le Fresne-sur-Loire
on 12 August 1822, who died in Sèvres
on 11 January 1885.
His fantastic works, full of strange details, particularly attracted Charles Baudelaire
, Théophile Gautier
, Joris-Karl Huysmans
, Robert de Montesquiou
and André Breton
. Odilon Redon
was his pupil. Bresdin influenced contemporary artists like Jacques Moreau, George Rubel, Jean-Pierre Velly
, and Philippe Mohlitz.
Draughtsman
A draughtsman or draftsman , is a person skilled in drawing, either:*drawing for artistic purposes, or*technical drawing for practical purposes such as architecture or engineering...
and engraver
Engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...
, born in Le Fresne-sur-Loire
Le Fresne-sur-Loire
Le Fresne-sur-Loire is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. It is around 25 km west of Angers,and around 50 km east of Nantes.-See also:*Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department...
on 12 August 1822, who died in Sèvres
Sèvres
Sèvres is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.The town is known for its porcelain manufacture, the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, making the famous Sèvres porcelain, as well as being the location of the International Bureau of Weights...
on 11 January 1885.
His fantastic works, full of strange details, particularly attracted Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...
, Théophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic....
, Joris-Karl Huysmans
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans . He is most famous for the novel À rebours...
, Robert de Montesquiou
Robert de Montesquiou
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac , was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy....
and André Breton
André Breton
André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....
. Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon
Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.-Life:...
was his pupil. Bresdin influenced contemporary artists like Jacques Moreau, George Rubel, Jean-Pierre Velly
Jean-Pierre Velly
Jean-Pierre Velly was a Breton etcher, draftsman and painter.In 1965, after attending the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Toulon, he began study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The following year he won the "Grand Prix de Rome" for etching...
, and Philippe Mohlitz.
External links
- http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/artist/173
- http://www.artnet.com/artists/rodolphe-bresdin/
- http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/two-masters-fantasy