Carlos Schwabe. Carlos Schwabe was a Swiss Symbolist painter and printmaker.
Schwabe was born in Altona, Holstein into a merchant family. In 1870 his family moved to Switzerland, receiving Swiss citizenship in 1888.
Between the years of 1882 to 1884, he studied at the Ecole des arts industriels. After studying art in Geneva, he relocated to Paris as a young man, where he worked as a wallpaper designer, and he became acquainted with Symbolist artists, musicians and writers.
In 1892, he was one of the painters of the famous Salon de la Rose + Croix organized by Josephin Peladan at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. His poster for the first Salon is an important symbolic work of idealist new art.
He exhibited at the Societe nationale des Beaux-Arts, at the Salon d'automne and was present at the Exposition Universelle of 1900, receiving the Gold medal. In the years that followed his work was also shown in Munich, Zürich, Vienna, and Brussels. Schwabe received the French Legion of Honor in 1902. Schwabe's paintings typically featured mythological and allegorical themes, with a very personal and idealist vision and social interest. References to the artists Albrecht Dürer and Andrea Mantegna can be seen in Schwabe's work. Schwabe is known for being one of the most important symbolist book illustrators. He illustrated the novel Le rêve by Émile Zola, Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, Maurice Maeterlinck'
Schwabe was born in Altona, Holstein into a merchant family. In 1870 his family moved to Switzerland, receiving Swiss citizenship in 1888.
Between the years of 1882 to 1884, he studied at the Ecole des arts industriels. After studying art in Geneva, he relocated to Paris as a young man, where he worked as a wallpaper designer, and he became acquainted with Symbolist artists, musicians and writers.
In 1892, he was one of the painters of the famous Salon de la Rose + Croix organized by Josephin Peladan at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. His poster for the first Salon is an important symbolic work of idealist new art.
He exhibited at the Societe nationale des Beaux-Arts, at the Salon d'automne and was present at the Exposition Universelle of 1900, receiving the Gold medal. In the years that followed his work was also shown in Munich, Zürich, Vienna, and Brussels. Schwabe received the French Legion of Honor in 1902. Schwabe's paintings typically featured mythological and allegorical themes, with a very personal and idealist vision and social interest. References to the artists Albrecht Dürer and Andrea Mantegna can be seen in Schwabe's work. Schwabe is known for being one of the most important symbolist book illustrators. He illustrated the novel Le rêve by Émile Zola, Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, Maurice Maeterlinck'
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