Honore Daumier - Kunsthalle Hochschwarzwald

HONORÉ
DAUMIER

Honoré Daumier (1808 to 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, graphic artist and caricaturist. He is an important representative of Realism. His political and socially critical caricatures are significant. From 1831 Daumier produced lithographs for the satirical magazines La Caricature and Le Charivari. For his exaggerated satirical depiction of King Louis Philippe as Gargantua — an insatiable eater and drinker — he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in 1832. Blind in old age, he died impoverished in 1879.

The Himmelreich art collection „Les Bagnieurs“ by Honore Daumier comprises more than 30 mostly hand-colored lithographs, supplemented by around 20 other typical works from the oeuvre of the Parisian artist.

Illustrations by Honore Daumier are represented in, among others, the following museums:

• Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA
• Tate Gallery, London, England
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
• Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France
• Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France
• Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de la Ville de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
• Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
• The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA
• Tate Gallery, London, England
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
• Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France
• Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France
• Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de la Ville de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
• Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
• The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia