Louis Buvelot

瑞士、澳大利亚 · 1814 – 1888

资料卡

出生: 1814 年
出生地: 莫尔日
去世: 1888 年
逝世地: 墨尔本
国籍: 瑞士、澳大利亚
职业: 摄影师、插画家、画家
获奖: Imperial Order of the Rose
配偶: Caroline-Julie Buvelot

生平与创作

Abram-Louis "Louis" Buvelot (French pronunciation: [lwi byvlo]; 3 March 1814 – 30 May 1888) was a Swiss landscape painter who lived 17 years in Brazil, and following 5 years back in Switzerland, stayed 23 years in Australia, where he influenced the Heidelberg School of painters.

Biography

Buvelot was born on 3 March 1814 in Morges, Vaud, Switzerland, second son of François Simeon Buvelot, postal official, and his wife Jeanne-Louise née Heizer, a school teacher.

Buvelot got a job teaching art at a private school in Switzerland. Buvelot's uncle had a plantation in Brazil. Buvelot lived in Brazil for four years in Bahia and Rio. He returned to Switzerland in 1852. He left his family in La Chaux-de-Fonds and sailed from Liverpool bound for Melbourne, Australia in 1864 accompanied by Caroline-Julie Beguin, a teacher.

Buvelot moved to Melbourne in 1865 for his health. He worked as a photographer for time before settling in Fitzroy.

Buvelot died at his home on George St, Fitzroy on 30 May 1888. He was 75. He was buried at the Boroondara Cemetery, where a large monument was erected in his memory. Buvelot's widow, also an artist, died in 1902. The couple had no children.

Buvelot is best known for his great contribution to Australian art. His works, mostly oil landscapes, are quite well regarded, but perhaps his impact was even greater as a tutor of several members of the Heidelberg School, including Arthur Streeton, who named Buvelot's 1866 painting Summer Evening Near Templestowe the "first fine landscape painted in Victoria". His enthusiasm for plein air painting (that is, painting directly in the open air) was a key characteristic of those artists' work.