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Félix Ziem Biography

French Impressionist artist
born 1821 - died 1911

Ziem was Born February 26, 1821 in Beaune (Cote d’Or, France). Died November 10, 1911 in Paris.
Félix Ziem is an artist of the pre-impressionist generation who has a style all his own. His view paintings of Venice were very successful amongst the collectors of the time and remain sought after icons of 19th century travel painting today. His contemporaries; Théophile Gautier, Théodore Rousseau and Chopin all held him in great esteem.

Originally an architect student at the “Academie d’architecture” in Dijon, Félix Ziem was excluded from a scholarship there due to “disciplinary” problems. With this excuse, he decided to leave for Rome, on foot, exchanging sketches for food along the way. Félix Ziem stopped in Marseille, giving a few lessons to Monticelli. After a long stay in Nice, he finally arrived in Rome. Ziem was disappointed by the city, so he continued on to Naples and finally Venice. There, his amazement and wonder at the otherworldly city never ceased. Théophile Gautier would say that every artist has an ideal country, often far away from his own and for Félix Ziem, that country was Venice. In 1845, he returned again to Venice for a three year stay. He rented a flat-bottom boat (a “topo”) that he transformed into his atelier. He accumulated a multitude of sketches, drawing evening festivals, the quiet of early morning, and the historical monuments that made up the city. Félix Ziem returned to Paris and successfully exhibited his view paintings of Venice at the Salon of 1849.

At the suggestion of Decamps he also travelled to Holland. The French Government purchased several of Félix Ziem paintings of Venice and many foreign collectors – visitors to the Exposition Universelle – took an interest in him.
Ziem also was a visitor to Barbizon where Félix Ziem purchased the house that had once belonged to the Barbizon school painter Charles Jacque. Close to other landscape artists of his generation, he painted alongside Daubigny in Jouarre and with Boudin in Le Havre. The naturalist approach of the Barbizon School influenced later Félix Ziem paintings and he became a renowned and successful artist. He won many medals for Félix Ziem oil paintings and was created Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1857, ascending to an Officer in 1878.
Although he did not return to Venice after 1892, he continued to paint his beloved city from the numerous studies Félix Ziem had done before up until the end of his life.

Félix Ziem died in Paris on 10th November 1911, leaving part of the contents of his studio to the City of Paris.

Félix Ziem studied at the Ecole d'Architecture de Dijon and for a time was a practicing architect. However, along with painters Guardi and Canaletto, it is the city of Venice to which his name is most closely linked. Venice is the subject of his finest paintings, and composer Frederic Chopin referred to the city as his spiritual home. Félix Ziem was well-traveled, visiting Algiers, Austria, Belgium, Constantinople, Egypt, England, Greece, Holland, Russia, and Turkey, but it was to Venice that Félix Ziem repeatedly returned.

He was an active participant in the Paris Salons from 1849 on, and made frequent trips to Barbizon, where he lived in a small circus caravan while painting. After 1888 Félix Ziem paintings show the influence of the Barbizon School's naturalistic approach, a greater attention to atmosphere and an increasingly impressionist style. He owned houses in Venice, Martigues, Nice (where Félix Ziem wintered), and on rue Lepic in Paris. Among his students was the young English Princess Victoria, later queen of Britain. Félix Ziem assisted less fortunate artists and established charities, among them an asylum for the blind.

He was the recipient of many awards and honors and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1857 and an Officer of that order in 1878. On his death Félix Ziem bequeathed to the city of Paris a number of studies and drawings from his studio. Félix Ziem paintings are found in museum collections throughout Europe as well as in North America.

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