Jean-Paul Laurens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean-Paul Laurens

French painter

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1838

Place of Birth: Fourquevaux, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1921

Profession: painter, sculptor

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Jean-Paul Laurens

  • Jean-Paul Laurens (28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of LĂ©on Cogniet and Alexandre Bida.
  • Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was often on historical and religious themes, through which he sought to convey a message of opposition to monarchical and clerical oppression.
  • His erudition and technical mastery were much admired in his time, but in later years his highly realistic technique, coupled to a theatrical mise-en-scène, came to be regarded by some art-historians as overly didactic.
  • More recently, however, his work has been re-evaluated as an important and original renewal of history painting, a genre of painting that was in decline during Laurens' lifetime. Laurens was commissioned to paint numerous public works by the French Third Republic, including the steel vault of the Paris City Hall, the monumental series on the life of Saint Genevieve in the apse of the PanthĂ©on, the decorated ceiling of the OdĂ©on Theater, and the hall of distinguished citizens at the Toulouse capitol.
  • He also provided illustrations for Augustin Thierry's RĂ©cits des temps mĂ©rovingiens ("Accounts of Merovingian Times"). Laurens was highly respected teacher at the AcadĂ©mie Julian, Paris, and a professor at the École nationale supĂ©rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he taught AndrĂ© Dunoyer de Segonzac and George Barbier.
  • He died in Paris, aged 82.
  • Two of his sons, Paul Albert Laurens (1870–1934) and Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875–1932), both also became painters and teachers at the AcadĂ©mie Julian.

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