Auguste Alexandre Hirsch

Auguste Alexandre Hirsch studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Victor Vibert, Hippolyte Flandrin and Charles Gleyre is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Work by Auguste Alexandre Hirsch is recorded in the collections of National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse, Musée d'Orsay and Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officier de l'Instruction publique.

• Born — 8 July 1833 • Died — 24 December 1912 (aged 79) • Birthplace — Lyon • Place of death — Paris • Known for — Painter, Lithographer • Awards — Officer of public instruction, Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour • Notable Works — Calliope Teaching Orpheus, Night

Auguste Alexandre Hirsch was born in Lyon, into a Jewish family, and was the son of Alexandre Hirsch (1801-1890), a merchant embroiderer, and Rosalie Mayer (1801-1885). His siblings were Malvina Hirsch (1826-1917), Abraham Hirsch (1828-1913), the chief architect of the City of Lyon, Julie Hirsch (born in 1831) and Joseph Hirsch (1836-1901). Auguste Alexandre Hirsch was a pupil of Victor Vibert at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Lyon between 1851 and 1854, and a student of Hippolyte Flandrin and Charles Gleyre at the École des beaux-arts in Paris, which he entered in 1856. He made his debut in 1857 with a drawing of Moses. He then exhibited in Paris and Lyon from 1857 to 1909. He was given an honourable mention and a bronze medal in 1889 and 1890, as well as a gold medal in 1889, at the Universal Exhibition. In 1870 he made a trip to Morocco, which inspired a number of his paintings depicting scenes from the community of Tetouan. In 1877 he painted the ceiling of the Célestins theater in Lyon. He was inspector of drawing education at the Fine Arts administration in 1879 and inspector of departmental museums in 1887. He wrote the article “Practical perspective” for the Dictionary of primary education and instruction. On 29 August 1889 he was made a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur). • Illustration — Calliope Teaching Orpheus (1865) • Illustration — Night (1875) • Illustration — Camille and Louis (1875) • Illustration — Samuel Auguste Dupont • Illustration — Gossips at the Well • Illustration — Suzanne • Illustration — L’enfant au lézard (1860) • Illustration — Michael the Brave (1860), lithography • Illustration — Flirtation in an Arcadian Landscape (1895)