Edouard Castres
Illustration — Self-portrait, 1897 Édouard Castres (Geneva, 21 June 1838 – Annemasse, 28 June 1902) was a Swiss painter. • Illustration — At the Japanese Market, 1870 Castres studied fine arts with Barthélemy Menn in Geneva before enrolling in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 as a Red Cross volunteer accompanying General Bourbaki's Eastern Army throughout the last phase of the war. This Panorama is displayed in a rotunda in Lucerne.
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Edouard Castres
Édouard Castres · Public domain
- Born
- 1838 · Geneva.
- Died
- 1902 · Annemasse.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Self-portrait, 1897 Édouard Castres (Geneva, 21 June 1838 – Annemasse, 28 June 1902) was a Swiss painter. • Illustration — At the Japanese Market, 1870 Castres studied fine arts with Barthélemy Menn in Geneva before enrolling in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 as a Red Cross volunteer accompanying General Bourbaki's Eastern Army throughout the last phase of the war. This Panorama is displayed in a rotunda in Lucerne.
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Born at Geneva in 1838, died in Annemasse in 1902.
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