Eugène Anatole Carrière (January 16, 1849 - March 27, 1906)
French painter.
Even as a child Carriere joined the students to lithography in Strasbourg (1864-1867), and then in Saint-Quentin (1868). Impressed pastel compositions Latour, and then works by Rubens in the Louvre (1869) he entered the School of Fine Arts, where she was studying in the workshop Cabanel.
After a stay in Dresden in 1870 he was imprisoned in 1871, expresses his socialist views in lithography, on the suppression of the Commune (<Human Rights>). In 1872-1873 he worked for Cheret, and then, after his marriage, lives in London (1877 - 1878), which discovers the work of Turner. His support for socialist and symbolist circles (lithograph portraits J. Dolena and Verlaine). However, Rodin and Puvis de Shawahna Carriere bases Nat. Society of Fine Arts (1890) and opens a new art salon (1896). Creativity Carriera dedicated to the memories of friendship, childhood and maternal love, begins with 1879 (<Motherhood>, Avignon, museum). He wrote chamber music compositions (<An older sister>, Paris, Musée d'Orsay) and living portraits in shades of brown - in their sinuous lines, more and more evident features of Art Nouveau (<Portrait of Mr. Deviye>, 1887, ibid; <Portrait of E. de Goncourt > ca. 1892, Pontoise, museum; <Meditation>, ca. 1900, Strasbourg, Museum of Fine Arts).
He owns and variations on the theme <Crucifixion>, exquisite still lifes and a few nudes and landscapes (Paris, Musée d'Orsay). A free workshop, open Carriere in 1898-1903, visited Matisse, Derain, Puy, Laprad. In 1904, Carriere was the first president of the Salon d'Automne. Fine collection of paintings by the artist is in the Paris Museum d'Orsay (in 1981 it filled up with the gift of Ivan Loiseau) and the Strasbourg Museum of Fine Arts.
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