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Honoré Victorin Daumier was born February 26th 1808 in Marseilles, the son of glazier and poet Jean Baptiste Louis Daumier and Cécile Catherine Philip.
1815-16: Daumier's father moved the family moved to Paris to try his fortune as a poet. He presented his poems to the King and in 1819 his play, Philippe II was published.
1821: Daumier began work as an assistant at Delaunay's bookshop, Palais-Royal, and made his first drawings. Daumier's parents encourage him to study art with Alexandre Lenoir, who introduces him to the work of Rubens and Titian.
1822: Daumier studied at Académie Suisse and began to copy in the Louvre. This was also the year that Daumier made his first lithographs.
1825: Daumier worked as an assistant to the lithographer Bélliard and created his first lithographic copies of drawings from the Louvre.
1829: Daumier's first lithographs appeared in La Silhouette.
1830: He made his first political caricatures, and met Balzac. He participated in the July Revolution in Paris. He started experimenting with sculpture. Later in the year he attacked the House of Representatives for censorship. In December he attacked Louis-Philippe.
1831: After the publication of Gargantua, the government seized all existing copies and destroyed the lithographic stones. Daumier was arrested and sentenced to 6 months in prison.
1834: Daumier created prints for Charivari and la Caricature. At the same time he maked 36 terracotta busts portraying parlamentarians of his time.
1836: As a result of the new law against freedom of the press, Daumier made fewer political and more socio-critical lithographs. The first drawing of the series Robert Macaire appeared.
1838: Aside from his lithographs, Daumier started making woodcuts and book illustrations for Balzac. From 1838 to 1852 he produced some 600 wood engravings.
Daumier died in February 1879 in Valmondois at the age of 71. He was buried in Père Lachaise cemetary. |
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