Théophile gautier

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Full Name: Gautier, Théophile

Other Names:

Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier

Gender: male

Date Born: 1811

Date Died: 1872

Place Born: Tarbes, Occitanie, France

Place Died: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Home Country/ies: France

Subject Area(s): Modern (style or period)

Career(s): art critics

Overview

French art critic and poet; primary exponent of the art-for-art’s sake approach. Gautier was the son of bureaucrat in the French tax office, Pierre Gautier, and his mother was mother was Antoinette-Adelaïde Concarde. In 1814 his family moved to Paris where Gautier received a formal education at the Collège Charlemagne. In 1829 he entered the studio of Louis-Edouard Rioult (1790-1855), a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Though he did not remain there long, he adopted a bohemian lifestyle, joining the Romantic circle of Victor Hugo. Following the July Revolution (1830), he was among the esthetes who embraced the notion of art’s autonomy and freedom from supporting ideology. Gautier’s preface to his 1835 book, Mademoiselle de Maupin becam

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Théophile Gautier

Born

in Tarbes, France

August 30, 1811

Died

October 23, 1872

Genre

Fiction, Travel

Influences

Honoré de Balzac, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Molière, E.T.A. HoffmanHonoré de Balzac, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Molière, E.T.A. Hoffmann, J. W. Goethe, Voltaire...more

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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. In the 1830 Revolution, he chose to stay with friends in the Doyenné district of Paris, living a rather pleasant bohemian life. He began writing poetry as early as 1826 but the majority of his life was spent as a contributor to various journals, mainly for La Presse, which also gave him the opportunity for foreign travel and meeting many influential contacts in high society and in the world of the arts, which inspired many of his writings including Voyage en Espagne (1843), Trésors d'Art de la Russie (1858), and Voyage en Russie (1867). He was a celebrated abandonnée of the Romantic Ballet, writing several scenarios, the most famous of whPierre Jules Théophile Gautie

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Théophile Gautier photographed by Nadar
Born:	August 30 1811(1811-08-30) Tarbes, France
Died:	October 23 1872 (aged 61) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Occupation(s):	Writer, poet, painter, art critic
Literary movement:	Parnassianism, Romanticism

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic whose life spans two major phases in the development of French literature. Gautier was born in the height of French Romanticism; he was a friend of Victor Hugo, and in his early years he wrote poems that effused the highly sentimental and overwrought style of the Romantics. In mid-life, however, Gautier made a dramatic about-face; he became one of Romanticism's fiercest critics, spending most of his time in the middle-period of his career satirizing Romantic poets. By the time he had come into his own as a poet and completely outgrown his youthful Romantic tendencies, Gautier had evolved into an entirely unique voice in French literature. Famous as one of the earliest