Diogène Maillart

Diogène Ulysse Napoléon Maillart (28 October 1840 – 3 August 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, designer, teacher and art critic.

Biography

He was born in

After returning from Rome in 1869, he was appointed a Professor of drawing at the Gobelins Manufactory, a position he occupied for fifty years. From 1873 to 1877, he was the Inspector of art works. He exhibited in the Salon every year until his death in 1926 in Paris.^[2]

After the founding of the

At the request of Prince Von Donnersmarck and his wife (known as "La Païva"), Maillart decorated the ceiling of Schloss Neudeck [de] in Upper Silesia. The building was burned by the Red Army in 1945 and the ruins were demolished in 1961. A series of murals he created for the City Hall in Beauvais also fared poorly; being destroyed by German bombs in 1940.^[3]

In addition to his painting, he was also a prolific author, writing a work on

• 
  His daughters,
  Eva and Jeanne
• 
  Homer on the
  Island of Skyros (1864)
• 
  The Young Christian Neophyte (1892)
• 
  Half-nude Study
  of a Young Man (1864)

References

Further reading

• Catherine Thieblin, Diogène Maillart. Sa vie (1840-1926), son œuvre, à Paris, en Ile-de-France et dans le Beauvaisis, Association pour la Promotion du Patrimoine local de l’Oise et du Beauvaisis, 2012
  ISBN 2-954323-60-4

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diogène Maillart.

• ArtNet: More works by Maillart
• (fr) Diogène Maillart on Base Mistral/Joconde
• Diogène Maillart at the Frick Art Reference Library