Georges Callot

Georges Callot (1857–1903) a French artist and educator, known for his nude, allegorical, and genre paintings.[1][2] He also worked as a decorative painter.

Georges Callot
Born1857 (1857)
Paris, France
Died23 June 1903
Paris, France
EducationÉcole des Arts Décoratifs,
École des Beaux-Arts
Known forpainting, educator
Georges Callot, Portrait de femme où l'attente (1886)

Biography

Georges Callot was born 1857 in Paris, France.[3] Callot studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs and then at the École des Beaux-Arts with Louis-Émile Adan.[3]

Callot first participated in the Salon in 1877.[3] In 1890, he joined the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts as a member.[1] Callot taught classes at Académie Delécluse, an atelier-style art school and he was one of the main instructors.

Callot painted, La Philosophie (1903) for the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.[4][5]

Death and legacy

Georges Callot died in 23 June 1903 in Paris.[3] His work can be found in various public museum collections including Art Renewal Center,[6] Châlons-en-Champagne,[1] Musee d'Orsay,[7] among others.

In the Spanish book, Lesbianas, Discursos y Representaciones (2008), Callot is named as one of the many artists that created anti-feminist work.[8] Other artists labeled as having anti-feminist work in the book included Eliseu Visconti, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, Louis de Schryver, and Joseph Granié.[8]

References
  1. "Callot, Georges". Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00030616. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  2. Busse, Joachim (1977). Internationales Handbuch aller maler und Bildhauer des 19 Jahrhunderts-Busse-Verzeichnis [International Handbook of All Painters and Sculptors of the 19th Century-Busse Directory] (in German). 2. Verlag Busse Kunst Documentation GMBM. p. 195.
  3. Becker, Felix; Vollmer, Hans; Thieme, Ulrich (1911). Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart [General lexicon of the visual artists from antiquity to the present]. Thieme-Becker. Leipzig, Germany: E. A. Seemann. pp. 405–406..
  4. Shaw, Jennifer Laurie (2002). Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France. Yale University Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-300-08382-8.
  5. La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité (in French). Bureaux de la Gazette des beaux-arts. 1903. p. 203.
  6. "Georges Callot". Art Renewal Center. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  7. "Artists, Georges Callot". Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  8. Tapia, Juan Luis (2009-08-15). "El Arte de Lesbos" [The Art of Lesbos]. ideal.es (in Spanish). Ideal Comunicación Digital SL Unipersonal. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
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