Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix
Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix (1831–1907), born Alejandrina Gessler y Shaw, was a Paris-trained Spanish painter who exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and was among the first female artists to be accepted into Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and Cádiz's Academia de Bellas Artes.
Also recorded as Alejandrina Gessler y Shaw · Marie Lacroix · Alejandrina Gessler Shaw · Alejandrina Anselma de Gesler
Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix
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- Name
- Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix
- Birth Name
- Alejandrina Gessler y Shaw
- Born
- 21 April 1831
- Birthplace
- Cádiz, Spain
- Died
- 1907
- Field
- painting
- Training
- Paris
- Full name
- Alejandrina Gessler Shaw.
- Nationality
- Spain.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- painting.
- Teachers
- Charles Joshua Chaplin.
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Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix (1831–1907), born Alejandrina Gessler y Shaw, was a Paris-trained Spanish painter who exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and was among the first female artists to be accepted into Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and Cádiz's Academia de Bellas Artes.
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Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix (1831–1907) was a Spanish painter. Born Alejandrina Gessler Shaw in Cádiz, the painter died in Paris. Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix was also known as Anselma. Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix was active in painting. Works by the painter are held at musée Muséum départemental des Hautes-Alpes and Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
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Training under Charles Joshua Chaplin is recorded. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix is recorded in the collections of Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and musée Muséum départemental des Hautes-Alpes.
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• Name — Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix • Birth Name — Alejandrina Gessler y Shaw • Born — 21 April 1831 • Birthplace — Cádiz, Spain • Died — 1907 • Field — painting • Training — Paris
Life and career
Life and career
Born of a Russian father and a Scotch-Irish mother, Gessler y Lacroix married French real estate developer Charles Lacroix and accompanied her husband to Paris in 1853. She trained at Charles Chaplin's atelier alongside Mary Cassatt and Eva Gonzalès and exhibited at the Paris Salon almost annually from 1865 to 1885, in addition to painting on commission for various hotels, churches, and mansions. She is also known for her female nudes and for her Orientalist paintings, inspired by travels in North Africa. She returned to Spain following her husband's death in 1895 and contained her artistic and literary output. Gessler y Lacroix worked under several pseudonyms, including Madame Anselma and Marie Lacroix, and published her memoirs, Recuerdos de Cádiz y Puerto Real (1841-1850), in 1899 as Fulana de Tal.
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Identity and origins
Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix was recorded at birth as Alejandrina Gessler Shaw. She also worked under the name Anselma. The authorities additionally record the headings Alejandrina Gessler y Shaw, Marie Lacroix, Alejandrina Gessler Shaw, Alejandrina Anselma de Gesler and Alejandrina Gessler de Lacroix.
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1831
Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix born at Cádiz.
1907
Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix died at Paris.
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- 1.Pauken, Michelle Denise. The life and work of Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix: A Spanish woman artist in nineteenth-century Paris. 2009.
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