Discover photographer, draftsperson, author Félix Nadar

Name variations

This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: Tournachon, Gaspard Félix
Nadar, Félix Tournachon dit
Félix Nadar is een pseudoniem.

Qualifications: photographer, draftsperson, author, drawing collector, print collector

Nationality/school: French

Born: Paris 1820-04-06
gedoopt op 17 november 1821

Deceased: Paris 1910-03-21
begraven op 24 maart 1910 op de begraafplaats Père-Lachaise

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: vader van Paul Nadar (= Paul Tournachon), broer van Nadar Jeune (= Adrien Tournachon)

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Damry werkte bij Nadar in Parijs in 1873.

This person/entity in other databases

15 hits in RKDimages as artist
10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author

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Parijs 1854
Nadar werkte samen met zijn broer Adrien.
Parijs 1855 - 1860
Rue Saint Lazare 113
Parijs 1860 - 1873
Boulevard des Capucines 35
Parijs 1873 - 1895
Rue d'Anjou 51. In 1895 nam Nadars zoon Paul de firma officieel over.
Marseille 1897 - 1899

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Bertsch, Auguste-Adolphe
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Jongh, Francis (II) de

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: portrait photography, cityscape, equestrian portrait, aerial photography

Medium/technique: albumen print
Product: carte-de-visite

Prijzen

gouden medaille
Exposition Photographie Brussel, 1856

Member of

Societé Française de Photographie
vanaf 1856

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author

Hannavy 2008 , vol. 2, p. 971-974

A. Barret, Nadar. 50 Photographies de ses illustres contemporains, Parijs 1975
M. van Melle en N.Wisman, 'De mislukte hemelvaart van Nadar', Ons Amsterdam 58 (2006)7/8, p. 310-311
From today painting is dead, 1972 (exh.cat.), p. 45 (NFM)
Kahmen, V. : Photography as Art (1974) (NFM)
Krichbaum, 1981, p. 138 (NFM)
Lingwood, James (ed.): Staging the Self. Self-Portrait Photography 1840s-1980s (tent.cat. London, 1986) (NFM)
Ulrich Keller, 'Nadar as portraitist, a photographic career between art and industry', Gazette des beaux-arts, 128 (1988), p. 133-178
Co Je Fotografie, Prague, 1989, p. 342 (NFM)
Musée d'Arles 1990 (NFM)
ESfHP SB 1992, 21/2, p. (26) (NFM)
International Photo-Auction Amsterdam 1993 (NFM)
Dictionnaire de la Photo (Larousse, 1996) (NFM)
Misselbeck, R. (Hrsg.): Prestel-Lexikon der Fotografen (2002) (NFM)
Lenman, Robin (ed.): The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005) (NFM)
Musée d'Arles 1990 (NFM)
J. de Los Llanos, 'De aanschaf van een unieke ballonvaartverzameling. DE collectie Nadar in Musée Carnavalet', Teylers Magazijn 35 (2016), no. 128, p. 10-12
R. Verhoogt, 'Nadar in Amsterdam!', Teylers Magazijn 35 (2016), no. 128, p. 13-16

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Project: Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)

External links: Masters of Photography
Mediatheque-patrimoine
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.1928
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.1929

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Creation date: 2001-08-22; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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