Felix Georges Ziem

FELIX GEORGES GEORGES ZIEM (Beaune, France, 1821 - Paris, 1911).
"View of Venice".
Oil on panel.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 50 x 73 cm; 75 x 96 cm (frame).
Although he had always been an amateur painter, Félix Ziem began his studies at the Dijon School of Architecture, practicing as an architect for a time. However, what at first the artist himself understood as a hobby, was forged as a passion after his visit to Italy in 1841. Specifically, Ziem was impregnated by the beauty of the canals of the city of Venice, a place that would become the source of many of his works throughout his artistic career. The painter also painted portraits and landscapes of places all over the world, such as Constantinople, Cagnes-sur-Mer and, of course, his native Burgundy. Félix Ziem exhibited in 1849 at the Paris Salon, moving in the 1960s to the Montmartre district of Paris. Today there is a museum with the artist's legacy in the town of Martingues in Provence (France), where the exceptional landscape views made throughout his career, heirs of French impressionism and Italian vedute that had conquered the French artist, are exhibited.