Eduard Charlemont

Eduard Charlemont (2 August 1848 – 7 February 1906) was an Austrian painter.

Early life Eduard Charlemont was born in Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire, in 1848. His father, Matthias Adolf Charlemont, was also a painter, specializing in painting miniature portraits. His younger brother Hugo Charlemont (1850–1939) was an equally famous impressionist painter. At the age of fifteen Charlemont exhibited his works for the first time at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied fine arts. At the same age Eduard Charlemont was also hired by a girls' school to teach drawing.

Career

After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Charlemont traveled to many countries in central Europe and finally settled in Paris, where he lived for the next thirty years. In Paris, several times he won the first prize of the Paris Salon, an annual exhibition held by the French Academy of Fine Arts . He died in Vienna in 1906.

Today, reproductions of his painting The Moorish Chief are the best-selling items in the museum store of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Arranging her Still Life, 1884 At the toilette The Music Lesson Hans Makart in his Atelier Tunisian Artisan A Drink for the Drummer, 1889 Artist in his Studio, 1890 A Gentleman in an Interior Wooden Bridge Scène d'intérieur La Parisienne, 1900 Cupid sharpening his arrow