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Robert LeFevre (October 13, 1911 – May 13, 1986) [1] was an American libertarian businessman, radio personality, and primary theorist of autarchism.
- Robert Lefèvre Was Born in Bayeux (Calvados)
- He Exhibited For The First Time at The Salon of 1791.
- In 1803, Vivant Denon Commissioned Lefèvre to Paint The First Consul
- Despite Losing Popular Appeal After His Death
- In 1820, He Was Made Chevalier of The Légion D’Honneur.
- In The Last Years of His Life, Lefèvre Turned to Religious Painting
at n° 3 de la rue Franche, on 24 September, 1755, son of Jacques Lefèvre, draper, and Suzanne Françoise Marguerite Decrot, the latter's wife. Despite revealing a talent for drawing when still young, his father wanted him to become a lawyer and so had him placed with a procureur in Caen. His first sketches were as a result to be doodled on legal dos...
His painting was of a young woman dressed as a bacchant (Musée Baron Gérard in Bayeux), about which people said: “You would said that this wonderful painter had stolen his colours from the Graces”; at the Salon of 1795, he was to present some paintings of subjects from antiquity, one of which entitled, Venus disarming Cupid (Fontainebleau) and anot...
for the Dunkirk town hall.(1) This painting was so successful that it was copied, in 1804, by Vien fils, for the town hall in Bruges and by Dabos for the town hall in Paris (Versailles) (2). Later, as a result of the patronage of Vivant Denon, director general of Museums and Administrator of the imperial art manufactories, forty portraits of Napole...
in his lifetime, Lefèvre's portraits were favourably compared to those by Gérard and Gros. Indeed, it would not appear accidental that Balzac, his novel Cousine Bette (1846) wrote of “the portrait of Hulot, painted by Robert Lefèvre in 1810, in the uniform of the Commissaire ordonnateur of the Garde impériale, towered of the girl as she worked”, in...
Lefèvre lived and worked in Paris, 3, quai d'Orsay (today 1, quai Anatole-France, VIIth arrondissement), on the corner with rue du Bac. His apartment was sumptuously decorated (including furniture by Boulle) and he had many fabulous paintings, drawings and miniatures on the walls. He taught painting and drawing to the great and the good of the Faub...
Assumption and Christ on the cross (Salon of 1827), Apotheosis of Saint-Louis. He was working on the latter painting when the Revolution of July 1830 took place, an event which was to deprive him of his support and official posts. Ill, depressed and desperate, he committed suicide by cutting his own throat at his house on the night 2/3 October, 183...
Mar 8, 2010 · Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) ran the Freedom School and Rampart College, founded in 1957. He had a legendary impact on a whole generation of libertarians.
Henri Lefebvre (/ l ə ˈ f ɛ v r ə / lə-FEV-rə; French: [ɑ̃ʁi ləfɛvʁ]; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space, and for his work on dialectical ...
Robert Lefebvre. Master in Woodcraft – Sculptor. The one who gives. the floor to trees. In a precise and silent choreography, Robert Lefebvre exposes the life of a tree in a unique work where the power of the material coexists with the refinement of the Work of the master Woodcraft Sculptor.
Oct 15, 2020 · Henri Lefebvre is now established as one of the most important social theorists of the 20th century. Over a long life (b. 1901–d. 1991) he wrote and published prodigiously more than sixty books and several hundred articles on a range of issues and themes.
Nov 21, 2022 · Mayor Robert Lefebvre and each councillor made their declaration of office, oath of allegiance to King Charles III, and signed the town’s Golden Book, before an audience of family, friends, and supportive citizens.
