Carlos Schwabe - Peintre de l’âme

Carlos Schwabe (1886-1926) est un peintre et illustrateur symboliste suisse, dont l’art est teinté de considérations sociales.
Two distinct styles are recognized in Carlos Schwabe's art. Before 1900, Schwabe's paintings were more individual and experimental, indicating the idealism of the Symbolists; conventional, allegorical scenes from nature became more prominent in his later work. Images of women were important, sometimes representing death and suffering, other times creativity and guidance. His first wife was his model for angels and virgins, and "Death" in Death and the Grave Digger (1895) resembles her. The death of a close friend in 1894, the musician Guillaume Lekeu, when Carlos Schwabe was 28 years old, engendered his interest in representing death and the world of ideal creation. Schwabe created an important watercolor that was the model of a lithographic poster for the 1892 Salon de la Rose + Croix, the first of six exhibitions organized by Joséphin Péladan that demonstrated the Rosicrucian tendencies of French Symbolism. Carlos Schwabe's poster depicted in shades of blue an initiation rite-three women ascending toward spiritual salvation-and is an exemplar of Rosicrucian art.

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Journal du symbolisme - Skira
Dictionnaire universel de la peinture – Le Robert
Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Jean Mineraud – Les dessous du visible

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