Bruno Heroux, Cheiron und Achileus

Bruno Heroux, Cheiron und Achileus
Bruno Heroux, Cheiron and Achileus
The hybrid creature Cheiron teaches young Achilleus to play the kithara, scene set on the edge of a forest, woodcut, c. 1920, posthumous print, dimensions of image c. 18 x 13.5 cm, dimensions of sheet c. 32 x 25 cm. Artist's info: actually Louis Carl Bruno Héroux, also Heroux, German painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Painter, graphic artist, illustrator and publisher (1868 Leipzig to 1944 Leipzig), studied at the academy of arts in Leipzig from 1886 to 1992, undertook numerous study trips through Germany, from 1903 lecturer at the academy of arts in Leipzig, 1900 to 1910 active in Paris, attended the Salon des Artistes Français, 1910 return to Leipzig and professorship at the academy of arts in Leipzig, received numerous honours, among others Mention honorable in Paris in 1906, Silver State Medal Salzburg in 1910 and the Knight's Cross 1st class of the Saxon Albrechts-Medal. Class of the Saxon Order of Albrecht, member of the Leipzig scholars' association "Leoniden", the Allgemeine deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft, the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands and the Freie Vereinigung der Graphiker zu Berlin, honorary member of the Leipziger Kunstverein, active in Leipzig, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler and Internet.