News by the Daumier-Register
NEW RESEARCH RESULTS, an update
At the beginning of this summer we introduced to you our new section of the DAUMIER REGISTER’S: "New Research Results". We had started off with the first 50 articles, noting that many Daumier collectors and scholars were amazed about the [...]
EISENSTEIN AND DAUMIER – A NEW BOOK
Van Gogh did it…. Degas did it…. but Eisenstein? We are all aware that Degas, Cézanne and van Gogh collected Daumier prints. Van Gogh’s enthusiasm even went so far as to copy one of Daumier’s wood engravings, “Les Quatre Ages” [...]
NEW RESEARCH RESULTS
It may not quite be a “Daumier Code”….. but did you know that there are many hidden messages in Daumier's lithographs besides the well-known pear shape symbolizing Louis-Philippe and thus avoiding censorship rejection? There are a number of obvious symbols [...]
HOMMAGE TO DAUMIER BY THE CHARIVARI IN 1864
The artists of the Charivari pay hommage to Daumier upon his return to the newspaper in 1864 with a banquet: La rentrée de Daumier au Charivari vient d'être fêtée dans un banquet où les célébrités de toutes sortes se [...]
REPRINT BY THE DAUMIER REGISTER
In 2012 The Daumier Register in preparation for a Daumier exhibition in Switzerland produced a reprint of Daumier’s only known etching, “The Old Man” (see: DR3955). The etching had been published in Champfleury's work from the copper original plate [...]
DAUMIER PORTRAIT: A SCULPTURE BY A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
This Spring (2012) Prof. Gertrud Krüskemper, an artist and art historian from Düsseldorf, Germany, contacted us to inform us that she was planning to do a portrait sculpture of Daumier. In order to get to know Daumier from "all sides" [...]