Edgar Chahine
Edgar Chahine , born in 1874 with Vienna in Austria and deceased with Paris in 1947, is an artist French of origin Arménie.
Biography
It begins its studies with Constantinople, where his/her father is Othoman bank manager. It has as a professor Milkon Tiratzuyan, who advises to him to continue his artistic formation in Italy. It goes to Venice at the Mékhitaristes, then between with the Academy of the fine arts where it learns its trade with the painter Antonio Paoletti and the sculptor Antonio del Zotto.
It settles definitively with Paris in 1895. It is registered with the Académie Julian and exposes to the Company of the French Artists of 1896 to 1899. In 1900, its Gravure S is worth a gold medal with the to him World Fair of Paris, then in 1903 another with the Biennale de Venise. It is naturalized French in 1925.
It leaves an important work of more than 800 engravings and some 300 Peinture S, Pastel S and Dessin S. In the years 1930-1949, it works the technique of the Tempera.
The artistic critic Camille Mauclair said of him: “The power of its feature and its acute sense of the observation make of it an exceptional witness of its time. ” Edgar Chahine was delivered to engraving “with this eye from which nothing escapes and this hand which can all. ”
Parallel to its artistic career, Edgar Chahine militated much with his/her friend the poet Archag Tchobanian, both “romantic Socialists”, for the recognition of the Arménie, supported by personalities like Anatole France, Jean Jaurès or Georges Clémenceau.
A museum was open in 1990, in the city Norman of Crouttes-Vimoutiers (Orne), thanks to the efforts of Pierre Chahine, the son of the painter, but it is now closed.
Books illustrated by Edgar Chahine
- In the Anteroom (one Minute History), of Octave Mirbeau, A. Romagnol, Bookstore of the Collection of the Ten, Collection of the Academy of Goncourt (1905).
- comic History on the suggestion of Anatole France by the editor Calmann-Levy
- Fun fairs of Paris of Gabriel Mourey.
- the Death of Venice of Maurice Bars (1925-1926) published by Devambez.
- Mitsou of Colette (1927-1935).
- November of Gustave Flaubert.
- With vau water of Huysmans.
- Small towns of France , Emile Sedeyn with Charles Hallo, Dauchez, Brouet, Gobo, Albert Decaris, Gusman, Paul Adrien Bouroux, Polat, Véder, Henry Cheffer, Jean Frélaut, Maurice Victor Achener, Willaume, Cottet, Company of Eloy Saint, 1935-1937.
- By the fields and the strikes , of Gustave Flaubert, note of Rene Dumesnil, with Charles Jouas, Henry Cheffer, Paul Adrien Bouroux, Louis Willaume, André Dauchez, Maurice Victor Achener, Société of Eloy Saint, 1939.
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