CHARLES EUPHRASIE KUWASSEG
(1838-1904)
Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg was born in Draveil, France on September 29, 1838. He was a painter of landscapes and marines. He worked with both oils and watercolors. He was the son of the noted Austrian born artist, Karl-Josef Kuwasseg who was also his first teacher. Kuwasseg worked closely with his father, and afterwards enlisted as a sailor.
Upon his return to France in 1853, he studied with master teachers and artists, Jean Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager and Louis Gabriel Eugene Isabey.
Kuwasseg began to exhibit at the famed Paris Salon starting with 1855 with much success and continued to do so quite often throughout his career. He also exhibited quite regularly at the equally important Salons of French Artists (Salons des Artistes Francais), Paris and in 1892, was awarded a third place medal by this prestigious organization.
He was named a professor by the Salon and had as students such notable artists as Joseph Leon Clavel de Marie and Emil Clarel.
Kuwasseg is particularly noted for his paintings of windblown sailing boats on the Brittany Coast and the North Sea as well as his paintings of seaports in Northern Europe. His landscapes of the Normandy countryside and his paintings of the Parisian working class were done realistically but in a delicate and sincere style.
Today, Kuwasseg's works can be found in private and public collections including in museums located in Digne, Montreal, Perigueux, Houilles, Pontoise, La Rochelle and Rouen, France.
