Camille Berlin
Camille Berlin (6 February 1866 –?) was a French painter.
Also recorded as Camille Léontine Blanche Berlin
Camille Berlin

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- Name
- Camille Berlin
- Born
- 6 February 1866
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- unknown Camille Berlin (6 February 1866 –?) was a French painter.
- Full name
- Camille Léontine Blanche Berlin.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Académie Julian
- Teachers
- Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant · Jean-Paul Laurens · Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin
- Honours
- Officier de l'Instruction publique · officier d'académie
- Languages
- French
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Biography
Biography
Camille Berlin studied at Académie Julian. Training under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Jean-Paul Laurens and Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Work by Camille Berlin is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Art de Toulon. Distinctions recorded are Officier de l'Instruction publique and officier d'académie.
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Camille Berlin is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Camille Berlin • Born — 6 February 1866 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — unknown Camille Berlin (6 February 1866 –?) was a French painter.
Early life and education
Early life and education
Camille Berlin was born on 6 February 1866 in the 4th arrondissement of Paris to Félicie Léontine Esmieu and Étienne Napoléon Berlin. Her parents married in 1863 and her older sister, Berthe Antoinette Félicie, was born nine months later. Her father, a primary school teacher, was headmaster of the local school at the time of her birth. Camille Berlin studied painting with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian, and with Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin.
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Camille Berlin was born in Paris, France.
Career
Career
Camille Berlin exhibited at the Salon des artistes français from 1889 and her work was awarded an honorable mention in 1900. She won a silver medal at l'exposition internationale d'Angers in 1895. She exhibited works in exhibitions in Troyes, Nantes, Angers and Montauban. • Illustration — Camille Berlin as a young woman Her painting studio was at 65, rue de Malte, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. Berlin joined the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1892. In 1901, Berlin was appointed Ordre des Palmes académiques then Officier de l'instruction publique in 1912. In 1914, her painting Autoportrait dans l'atelier (Self-portrait in the studio) was exhibited at the 3rd Salon of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Later life
Later life
Berlin moved to Toulon around 1920, and lived at 1 impasse Jeanne, faubourg du Mourillon. She later moved to villa Clair Logis, on avenue Frédéric-Mistral, La Seyne-sur-Mer around 1928. After selling her property on 5 June 1930, by 1931 she was living at 14 quai du Port in Marseille. She disappears from the public record after this date.
Legacy and commemoration
Berlin's painting La lecture sous la lampe, (1899) was sold in the 1990s. Un soir, (1902) was sold in Chicago in 2023. In 2016, the Musée d'Art de Toulon exhibited her Autoportrait dans l'atelier (Self-portrait in the studio) as part of the Elles s'exposent exhibition, which featured a hundred works by women artists held in its collections. An article in the regional newspaper Var-Matin celebrated Camille Berlin as "une Toulonnaise" (a woman from Toulon).
Works in public collections
• Fillette aux cerises, 1907, huile sur toile, 46 × 55 cm; Musée Saint-Nazaire de Bourbon-Lancy. • Autoportrait dans l'atelier, huile sur toile, 100 × 80 cm; Musée d'Art de Toulon. • Illustration — link=Fichier:Camille_Berlin-autoportrait.jpg Autoportrait (1914), musée d'Art de Toulon • Illustration — link=Fichier:Camille_Berlin_-_Fillette_aux_cerises_1907.jpg Fillette aux cerises (1907), musée Saint-Nazaire de Bourbon-Lancy
Awards
• Officier d'Académie (1901). • Officier de l'Instruction publique (1912).
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- 1.Acte de naissance , 6 février 1866, Paris, Archives de Paris (vue 10/31).
- 2.Acte de mariage , 5 février 1863, Paris, Archives de Paris (vue 18/31).
- 3.Acte de naissance , 23 novembre 1863, Paris, Archives de Paris (avec mention marginale de décès) (vue 11/31).
- 4.Martin, Jules. Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs : portraits et biographies suivis d'une notice sur les salons français depuis 1673, les sociétés de beaux-arts, la propriété artistique, etc. Tome II. Flammarion. 1897.
- 5.Dictionnaire Bénézit. 2011. 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00016424.
- 6.Benezit Dictionary of Artists - Camille Berlin. wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org. 2011. 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00017350.
- 7.Bulletin de la Société populaire des beaux-arts : publication trimestrielle. Gallica. 1898-01-01.
- 8.Paris-Hachette. RetroNews - Le site de presse de la BnF. 1903-01-01.
- 9.Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets. Gallica. 2080. 1901-03-29.
- 10.Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets. Gallica. 1986. 1912-02-29.
- 11.La Liberté. 1914-02-08.
- 12.Berlin, Camille, Répertoire alphabétique nom-prénom des hypothèques 1931-1955, conservation de Toulon, volume 17 bis, feuillet 112, Archives départementales du Var (vue 90/93)
- 13.Relevé de formalités de Madame Camille Léontine Blanche Berlin, volume 314, case , bureau de Toulon, cote 4Q 1266, Archives départementales du Var (note: damaged register, not digitised)
- 14.Transcription hypothécaire d'un acte de vente, 16 juillet 1926, conservation de Toulon, vol. 233, Archives départementales du Var (vues 26-28/204)
- 15.Transcription hypothécaire d'un acte de vente, 11 juin 1930, conservation de Toulon, vol. 414, Archives départementales du Var (vues 174-177 /188)
- 16.Recensement de population, Marseille, (rue du Port) 1931, Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône
- 17.Fillette aux cerises. www.pop.culture.gouv.fr.
- 18.Artnet. www.artnet.com.
- 19.Invaluable.
- 20.rédaction, La. La femme dans presque tous ses états. Var-Matin. 2016-05-12.
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