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Francois Flameng (French, 1856-1923).Пост-импрессионизм.

Francois Flameng (1856-1923) был очень успешным французским художником в течение последней четверти 19 века и первой четверти 20-го. Родился и умер в Париже, его отцом был живописец Lеopold Flameng, который был и замечательным гравёром и научил этому ремеслу и сына.Обучался живописи у художников:Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), Jean-Paul Laurens (Jean Paul Laurens) (1838-1931)François впервые выставил свои работы в Парижском Салоне в 1873 г. Francois Flameng первоначально получил известность благодаря своим историческим картинам и портретам, стал профессором в Академии Художеств в 1905г. Он украшал здания Сорбонны и Опера Комик, а также занимался рекламой. Был награжден Орденом почетного легиона. Позднее он получил известность, благодаря своим работам о первой мировой войные. Был назван почетным президентом Общества военных художников.Работы его кисти хранятся в музеях мира, в том числе в Эрмитаже. Сайт

Купание придворных дам в 18 веке.

Прием в Компьене в 1810 г.

Наполеон I и король Римский в Сен-Клу в 1811 г.

Портрет герцогини Доры Евгеньевны Лейхтенбергской.

Mrs. Adeline M. Noble.1903.

Woman sitting on a windowsill.1893

Женский портрет.

Портрет Зинаиды Юсуповой

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Портрет княгини З.Н. Юсуповой с двумя сыновьями в Архангельском.1894.

The 1908 portrait of QUEEN ALEXANDRA

Прием в Мальмезоне в 1802 году.

An Evening's Entertainment For Josephine

Le carneval a Venise

Reception At Malmaison In 1802

Napoleon I and the King of Rome at Saint-Cloud in 1811

Mrs Adeline M Noble

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Moliere Demanding an Audience with King Louis XIV at Versailles

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Portrait De Mme D
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Das Volk von Paris kommt nach Versailles

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Family Portrait Of A Boy And His Two Sisters
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Ile Pointeaux
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Napoleon After The Battle Of Waterloo

The Forgotten Front : French trenches in front of Ampfersbach in Alsace (1916)

Francois Flameng (along with Georges Scott) was one the most renowned illustrators of the Great War in France. He was a talented and respected artist in his own right for many years before the war, and was a historical painter as well as a modern portratist and decorator of public buildings. He was professor at the academy of Fine Arts and honorary president of the (french) Society of Military Painters as well as an officially accredited artist to the War Ministry.In that capacity he received a laissez-passer for the front lines and was one of the few artists to frequenty visit the area of combat operations throughout the entire war. From 1915 onwards his paintings and watercolors were publicly exhibited in the Salle d'Honneur de l'Hotel des Invalides in Paris, but as the French government wished for a larger circulation of his outstanding work, publication was encouraged via the media. His work became mostly known via lavish large-sized color reproductions in newsmagazines such as 'L'Illustration'. In 1920 Francois Flameng donated most of his work to the musйe de l'Armйe where they were incoporated into the newly formed exhibits dealing with the Great War. His works are still regularly exhibited.The theme of this small collection of paintings and watercolors by Francois Flameng, is that of the Landscapes of War. Flameng was a consummate combat illustrator and produced many realistic scenes of warfare and attacks across No-Man's Land. But it is his work depicting the ravages of warfare that is most unique. Bombed and cratered landscapes, towns and villages left in ruins, destroyed factories, bridges, churches and convents, the desolate criss-crossing of trenches and barricades, the far-off explosions of an artillery duel or combat engagement among the hills and forests of rural France, these are subjects which Fameng treats with a unique skill and talent. Undoubtedly paintings of this subject matter were primarily intended to forge determination and patriotic feelings by depicting the savage and inhuman destructiveness of the enemy, by showing what ravages had been inflicted on the sacred soil of France. There is also a fascination with these scenes of desolation, for consider : at the beginning of the 20th century people were not as innured to scenes of man-made destruction as we are now. Even Napoleanic warfare of 100 years peviously , while conducted on an epic scale, did not cause such devastation as was witnessed during the Great War.

It must also be said that not all of his contempoary colleagues were enamoured of Flameng's subject matter. Some critics thought his scenes of embattled landscapes to be little more than techically competant watercolors with lots of smoke and some bright flashes added. There were no heroically charging figures or flags a waving, and therefore they did not meet the approval of those who preferred classical paintings of military glory.But in the end it is work such as Flameng's which has endured and stood the test of time and veracity. His paintings and watercolors are both worthy artistic achievments in their own right and historically valuable documentation about the true face of the Great War.