Charles Augustus Lasar
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1856 - Neuilly, Francia, 1936
Lasar has exhibited in places such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design, the Paris Exposition of 1889, various Salons in Paris, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania.
Charles Augustus Lasar was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1856. He studied with Jean Leon Gerome and throughout his studies, Lasar developed his stylistic character from impressionism to tonalism.
He was a popular and influential teacher active in Paris, and was affectionately known as Shorty. In his study in Montparnasse he attracted many students. He taught landscape painting en plein air, giving lectures around the French countryside but not only, from Auvers to Normandy to Belgium, Holland, and Salisbury (England).
Among his students: Minerva Chapman, Cecilia Beaux, and Violet Oakley
Lasar has exhibited in places such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design, the Paris Exposition of 1889, various Salons in Paris, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania.
Museums and public places that preserve his works:
Autun, Musée Rolin ; Clisson (Elise de la Trinité); La Varenne (Chapelle de la Bridonnière); Nantes (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée Château des Ducs de Bretagne); Paris (Musé des Arts Africains et Océaniens, Musée National d'Art Moderne, C.N.A.C Georges Pompidou, Musée Bouchard, Musée de la Marine, Collections du Mobilier National, Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins ; Licée Claude Monet, Ministère des Affaires Angères ; Ministère des Transports et de la Mer) ; Quimper (Musée des Beaux-Arts) ; Rennes (Parlement de Bretagne) ; Saint Brieuc (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire) ; Saint Nazaire (Patrimoine Museal) ; Sain Quentin (Musée Antoine Lecuyer) ; Troyes (Préfecture de l'Aube) ; Algiers (Musée National des Beaux-Arts) ; Luxembourg (Embassy of France); Fort de France (Centre de Formation Technique) ; Nicaragua, Managua (Embassy of France).
Bibliography:
E. Bénezit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris, Librairie Gründ, 1976 ; Exposition des œuvres de Jean Bouchaud, Orientalisme et Intimisme, 1920 à 1940, Parigi, Galerie Philippe Heim, 1998; Dictionnaire de Peintres à Montmartre, Parigi, Editions André Roussard, 1999 ; Jean Bouchaud, de Carthage a Natitingou, Œuvres sur papier, Parigi, Galerie Philippe Heim, 2003.
He was a popular and influential teacher active in Paris, and was affectionately known as Shorty. In his study in Montparnasse he attracted many students. He taught landscape painting en plein air, giving lectures around the French countryside but not only, from Auvers to Normandy to Belgium, Holland, and Salisbury (England).
Among his students: Minerva Chapman, Cecilia Beaux, and Violet Oakley
Lasar has exhibited in places such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design, the Paris Exposition of 1889, various Salons in Paris, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania.
Museums and public places that preserve his works:
Autun, Musée Rolin ; Clisson (Elise de la Trinité); La Varenne (Chapelle de la Bridonnière); Nantes (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée Château des Ducs de Bretagne); Paris (Musé des Arts Africains et Océaniens, Musée National d'Art Moderne, C.N.A.C Georges Pompidou, Musée Bouchard, Musée de la Marine, Collections du Mobilier National, Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins ; Licée Claude Monet, Ministère des Affaires Angères ; Ministère des Transports et de la Mer) ; Quimper (Musée des Beaux-Arts) ; Rennes (Parlement de Bretagne) ; Saint Brieuc (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire) ; Saint Nazaire (Patrimoine Museal) ; Sain Quentin (Musée Antoine Lecuyer) ; Troyes (Préfecture de l'Aube) ; Algiers (Musée National des Beaux-Arts) ; Luxembourg (Embassy of France); Fort de France (Centre de Formation Technique) ; Nicaragua, Managua (Embassy of France).
Bibliography:
E. Bénezit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris, Librairie Gründ, 1976 ; Exposition des œuvres de Jean Bouchaud, Orientalisme et Intimisme, 1920 à 1940, Parigi, Galerie Philippe Heim, 1998; Dictionnaire de Peintres à Montmartre, Parigi, Editions André Roussard, 1999 ; Jean Bouchaud, de Carthage a Natitingou, Œuvres sur papier, Parigi, Galerie Philippe Heim, 2003.
