Albert Wolff (journalist)

Portrait d'Albert Wolff (1877)
par Édouard Manet, Kunsthaus de Zurich.
Sépulture d'Albert Wolff au cimetière du Père-Lachaise ornée de son buste par Jules Dalou (1891).

Albert Abraham Wolff (1835 in Cologne – 22 December 1891, in Paris), was a French writer, dramatist, journalist, and art critic who was born in Germany.

Biography

Wolff graduated from a trade school after teaching in Paris . This was followed by a degree in Bonn before he settled in Paris in 1857. There he worked as a secretary for Alexandre Dumas. From 1859 he was editor of Le Charivari under the pseudonym Charles Brassac. He moved to Le Figaro where he became a leading art critic and was later promoted to editor of the newspaper. His discussions of the Paris Salon had a great impact of the success of contemporary artists. Wolff supported academic painting, with Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier as one of his favourite artists. Wolff opposed Impressionism, although occasionally he praised individual works from the school. He published detailed observations of Paris in several books and wrote several novels and stage plays. Politically, he opposed antisemitism.

He is buried in cimetière du Père-Lachaise (96th division).[1]

Œuvres

Théâtre
Varia

Bibliography

References

  1. Bauer, Paul (2006). Deux siècles d'histoire au Père Lachaise. p. 786. ISBN 978-2914611480.

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