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Carlos Schwabe selfportrait, circa 1900

Carlos Schwabe (July 21, 1866 � 22 January 1926) was a Swiss Symbolist painter and
printmaker.

Contents
1 Life
2 Work
3 Gallery
4 References
5 External links
Life
Schwabe was born in Altona, Holstein, and moved to Geneva, Switzerland at an early
age, where he received the Swiss nationality. 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 (Guillaume Lekeu, Vincent
d'Indy) an writers. In 1892, he was one of the painters of the famous Salon de la
Rose + Croix organized by Jos�phin P�ladan at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. His poster
for the first Salon is an important symbolic work of the idealist new art. He
exhibited at the Soci�t� nationale des Beaux-Arts, at the Salon d'automne and was
present at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 (Gold Medal), but also in Munich,
Z�rich, Vienna, and Brussels. His paintings typically featured mythological and
allegorical themes with a very personal and idealist vision and a social interest.
His important work La Vague (The Wave), and its preparatory drawings are a
testimony of the engagement of the artist during the "Affaire dreyfus". Schwabe is
one of the most important symbolist book illustrators. He illustrated the novel Le
r�ve (1892) by �mile Zola, Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal (1900), Maurice
Maeterlinck's Pell�as et M�lisande (1892), and Albert Samain's Jardin de l'infante
(1908), but also texts by Haraucourt, Mallarm�, Blondel, Mend�s, Lamennais etc. The
most important works by Schwabe belongs to the Mus�e d'Orsay in Paris, the Mus�e
d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva, the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro,
the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in
Brussels and in private collections. Schwabe received the French L�gion of Honor in
1902. Schwabe lived in France for the rest of his life and died in Avon, Seine-et-
Marne in 1926.

Work
Two distinct styles are recognized in Schwabe's art. Before 1900, Schwabe's
paintings were more individual and experimental, indicating the idealism of the
Symbolists; conventional, allegorical scenes from nature became more prominent in
his later work. Images of women were important, sometimes representing death and
suffering, other times creativity and guidance. His first wife was his model for
angels and virgins, and "Death" in Death and the Grave Digger (1895) resembles her.
The death of a close friend in 1894, the musician Guillaume Lekeu, when Schwabe was
28 years old, engendered his interest in representing death and the world of ideal
creation.

Schwabe created an important watercolor that was the model of a lithographic poster
for the 1892 Salon de la Rose + Croix, the first of six exhibitions organized by
Jos�phin P�ladan that demonstrated the Rosicrucian tendencies of French Symbolism.
Schwabe's poster depicted in shades of blue an initiation rite�three women
ascending toward spiritual salvation�and is an exemplar of Rosicrucian art.

Gallery

La douleur, 1893

Cloches du soir (Evening bells, 1895)

Death and the Gravedigger, 1895

Les Fleurs du mal, 1900

l'Ame du vin, 1900

Spleen et Id�al, 1907

Lotte, the artist's daughter, 1908

References
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David, (1986), Une autre lumi�re. Carlos Schwabe, l'id�alisme
et la mort in L'�crit-voir,n� 8.
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David, (1986), Carlos Schwabe, illustrateur symboliste,
Bulletin du bibliophile, n� 2.
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David, (1987), Carlos Schwabe et le nouveau mysticisme", in Un
symboliste genevois : Carlos Schwabe, exh. cat., Gen�ve, mus�e d'Art et d'Histoire.
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David, (1987), Carlos Schwabe, illustrateur symboliste du R�ve
de Zola, Revue du Louvre et des mus�es de France, n� 5-6.
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David (1988),Guillaume Lekeu et Carlos Schwabe : "Une haute
confraternit� artistique"", Revue de musicologie, t. 74, n�1, 1988, p.53-68.
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David (1993) R�volte et folie visionnaire chez Carlos Schwabe :
La Vague 1906-1907, in "L'�me au corps", exh. cat., Paris.
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David, (1994), Carlos Schwabe, symboliste et visionnaire,
Paris, ACR editions.
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David, (1996), Peinture, hyst�rie et op�ra : les r�volt�es
tragiques de Carlos Schwabe, Genava, revue du mus�e d'Art et d'Histoire de Gen�ve.
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David, (1999), Les Peintres de l'�me. Le symbolisme id�aliste
en France", exh. cat. Bruxelles, Paris (and 2000-2004 : Salzburg, Chemnitz, Madrid,
Japan : German, Spanish and Japanese translations).
Clement, Russell T. et al. (2004). A Sourcebook of Gauguin's Symbolist Followers.
Greenwood Publishing Group, 865�867. ISBN 0-313-31205-2.
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David (2007), Painters of the soul, Tampere, Museum of Art.
Greenspan, Taube G. "Schwabe, Carlos." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online
(accessed May 26, 2008).
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David (2011) S�ailles m�c�ne : Schwabe, la conscience et
l'exemple, introduction to : Gabriel S�ailles, "Carlos Schwab" (1914, in Le G�nie
dans l'art, anthologie des �crits esth�tiques et critiques de Gabriel S�ailles,
Sarah Lindford and Michela Passini, Paris, Kim� 2011.
Jumeau-Lafond, Jean-David (2017) "Carlos Schwabe" in "Mystical Symbolism. The
Salons de la Rose+Croix 1892-1897", exh. cat. ,New York, Solomon Guggenheim Museum.
External links
Media related to Carlos Schwabe at Wikimedia Commons
Authority control
WorldCat Identities BNF: cb149674489 (data) GND: 119187841 HDS: 22101 ISNI: 0000
0000 8110 9550 LCCN: nr89002918 RKD: 71476 SIKART: 4022839 SNAC: w6ns8m8q SUDOC:
033158053 ULAN: 500112162 VIAF: 32031144
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