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1829 Morges, Switzerland - 1898 Dusseldorf, Germany. Known for: Portrait and peasant genre painting, illustration, teaching.
Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (born April 27, 1829 in Morges; † April 25, 1898 in Düsseldorf) was a Swiss painter and representative of the anecdotal narrative genre painting of the Düsseldorf School.... Read full biography
Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (born April 27, 1829 in Morges; † April 25, 1898 in Düsseldorf) was a Swiss painter and representative of the anecdotal narrative genre painting of the Düsseldorf School. Benjamin Vautier, son of the Vaudois parish candidate and grammar school teacher Rodolphe Benjamin... Read full biography
Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (born April 27, 1829 in Morges; † April 25, 1898 in Düsseldorf) was a Swiss painter and representative of the anecdotal narrative genre painting of the Düsseldorf School. Benjamin Vautier, son of the Vaudois parish candidate and grammar school teacher Rodolphe Benjamin Louis Vautier (1798–1871) and his wife Jeanne Marie Sophie, b. Chevalier, was born in Morges on Lake Geneva. He spent his youth in Noville in the Rhône Valley, where his father was called as a pastor.... Read full biography
Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (born April 27, 1829 in Morges; † April 25, 1898 in Düsseldorf) was a Swiss painter and representative of the anecdotal narrative genre painting of the Düsseldorf School. Benjamin Vautier, son of the Vaudois parish candidate and grammar school teacher Rodolphe Benjamin Louis Vautier (1798–1871) and his wife Jeanne Marie Sophie, b. Chevalier, was born in Morges on Lake Geneva. He spent his youth in Noville in the Rhône Valley, where his father was called as a pastor. He then attended the Lausanne grammar school and was supposed to become a pastor. In caricatures of the pupil Vautier the talent was shown early. His father, albeit reluctantly, gave permission to make art his profession. After a brief stint at the... Read full biography
Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (born April 27, 1829 in Morges; † April 25, 1898 in Düsseldorf) was a Swiss painter and representative of the anecdotal narrative genre painting of the Düsseldorf School. Benjamin Vautier, son of the Vaudois parish candidate and grammar school teacher Rodolphe Benjamin Louis Vautier (1798–1871) and his wife Jeanne Marie Sophie, b. Chevalier, was born in Morges on Lake Geneva. He spent his youth in Noville in the Rhône Valley, where his father was called as a pastor. He then attended the Lausanne grammar school and was supposed to become a pastor. In caricatures of the pupil Vautier the talent was shown early. His father, albeit reluctantly, gave permission to make art his profession. After a brief stint at the drawing school of the painter Jules Hébert, a master popular in Geneva at the time, Vautier began an apprenticeship as an enamel painter... Read full biography
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Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier the Elder
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Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (born April 27, 1829 in Morges; † April 25, 1898 in Düsseldorf) was a Swiss painter and representative of the anecdotal narrative genre painting of the Düsseldorf School.
Benjamin Vautier, son of the Vaudois parish candidate and grammar school teacher Rodolphe Benjamin Louis Vautier (1798–1871) and his wife Jeanne Marie Sophie, b. Chevalier, was born in Morges on Lake Geneva. He spent his youth in Noville in the Rhône Valley, where his father was called as a pastor. He then attended the Lausanne grammar school and was supposed to become a pastor. In caricatures of the pupil Vautier the talent was shown early.
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