Charles Frederic Soehnee
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Uploaded by artpopulus on Oct 6, 2009
Soehnée had been born in 1789 in the Rhineland town of Landau, which at that time was part of France: his odd-looking surname is the Gallicized equivalent of Söhne. His family moved to Paris before the turn of the nineteenth century. From about 1810, Soehnée was a pupil of the Neoclassical painter and illustrator Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. The best likeness we have of him is that painted by his friend and fellow-pupil Pierre-Louis de Laval (or Delaval), in 1812.
Excepting a few conventional landscapes, Soehnées paintings are almost entirely devoted to fantastical and grotesque subjects: groups of faceless figures are juxtaposed with variously ratlike and batlike creatures, or skeletal birds; and there is a strange preponderance of stilts, whips and fishing-rods. The titles that Soehnée gave to some of his pictures are further suggestive of a gothic sensibility: Journey to Hell; Cradle of Death; A Place of Silence; and The Winds, Grouped around Plague and Death, Cover the Earth with Tombs
t the time these works were executed, it is likely that Soehnee was already engaged in research that would culminate, in 1822, with the publication of a technical treatise in which he disputed the traditional account of Van Eycks having invented oil-painting, arguing instead for the existence, since antiquity, of a form of oil painting, or a mixture of encaustic and varnish, which in his view, could be the only explanation for the durability and preservation of ancient paintings. Thereafter, Soehnée seems to have abandoned art, and to have become a technician, and a dealer; [and] not content with theorising, he perfected a varnish which was extremely successful—Delacroix mentions it several times in his journal—and which is still in use today.
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Wonderful!
A lot of thanks
halynamyroslava 4 months ago
Wonderful. :)
DickensianDreams 2 years ago
Sin duda un mundo diferente el que refleja este pintor, curioso lo de que perfeccionó el barniz y que se uda aun hoy día.
tuandaluza 2 years ago
You could show slides of Teletubbies to Mozart's death mass and still, they would appear interesting and morose.
That been said, lovely body of work, certainly fitting to the music. :D
Kloxboy 2 years ago