Leo Herrmann | |
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Born | July 2, 1853 |
Died | 1927 (aged 73–74) |
Nationality | French |
Movement | Anti-clerical art |
Leo Herrmann (2 July 1853 – 1927) was a French anti-clerical painter.
Herrmann was educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, [1] and learned under the tutelage Ernest Meissonier. [2] He entered the Parisian art scene in 1875 at the Paris Salon. [1] Herrmann occasionally painted dandies or soldiers, [3] but became a successful artist by creating works that depict cardinals wearing red cassocks in comical scenarios. [4]
Some of his paintings have clerics feeding swans; others have cardinals themselves painting. Another has a cardinal drinking wine through a long straw. [3]
His first painting, shown in 1875, is A Bout d'Argument. Others include La Bonne Histoire (1876), Le Scandale du Jour (1877), Au Rendez-Vous (1887), Le Goûter (1889), Au Cabare (1896), [1] The Cordon Bleu, Suzette's Slipper, [5] and L'incroyable. [6]
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