Eugène Burnand was born in Switzerland in 1850, the son of the arms manufacturer Edouard Burnand. The family was wealthy and politically influential, supplying both the Swiss and Italian armies with weapons. After studying architecture at the ETH in Zurich, Burnand trained as a painter in Geneva and Paris from 1872 onwards, with studies of contemporary printmaking techniques being added. He was awarded gold medals at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889 and 1900. Burnand worked as an illustrator, made etchings and copperplate engravings and became a knight of the Legion of Honour after the death of his father.
After 1895 religious motifs determined his painting. The artist's most famous work, "The disciples John and Peter, walking to the tomb the morning after the resurrection", dates from this phase of his career and was painted in 1898. 104 pastel and pencil portraits, created between 1917 and 1920, show Eugène Burnand paying tribute to victims of all 45 nationalities represented in the First World War. He continued the project from Marseilles when he returned to Paris from Switzerland in 1918 after the end of the war. At that time he already called France his "second home".
Several of his children were born in France. Family members had fought for France in the First World War. Burnand was impressed by the large number of nations involved in the conflict, traced racist prejudices and theories in his depictions and explicitly wanted to capture personalities of military "type" in his portraits. At meetings in Paris, Montpellier and Marseilles, Burnard drew the sitters with Wolff pens decorated with hard hard-muth pastels. Each portrait measures approximately 46 x 53 cm. All those portrayed described themselves as deeply affected by their experiences. They had experienced the sessions " like in a confessional". Burnand had captured their moods with consummate skill.
Robert Hamilton, portrayed in pastel 62, described his experience in his diary as follows: "A little-known French-Swiss artist asked me through the YMCA to pose for Monsieur Burnand. I thought I was a typical Australian, so more out of curiosity and to break the monotony of the visits, I went there. (...) The work was good and he sent me a reproduction of it to Australia. I took a photo of it. It gave me an insight into his French home. You know, no matter how good a friend you are to a Frenchman, you will never easily gain access to his home." Like many of his countrymen, Burnand's work sought to understand the unprecedented and unexpected horrors of World War I. Nevertheless, he tried to gain something positive from the events by actively engaging in close contact with all parties involved.
80 of his portraits were exhibited in May 1919 in the Luxembourg Museum in Paris and in June 1920 in the Brunner Gallery with a further 20 portraits, which received great public recognition. The portrait drawings remained the last works of the artist, who died in 1921.
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.jpg "The Farmer by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Missionary Square in Meuong Ngan. Engraving by Eugene Burnand, to illustrate the story “Journey in Upper Laos”, in 1880, by Dr. P.Neis. Published in Le Tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages, 2nd semester 1885, edited by Edouard Charton by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "On the way into the forest, the expedition travels on the back of an elephant. Engraving by Eugene Burnand, to illustrate the story Journey in Upper Laos, in 1880, by Dr. P.Neis. Published in Le Tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages, 2nd semester 1880 by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "The Labourers in the Vineyard, Bibbys Annual by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Dr. Harmand awakens in the middle of the night by the noise of the rifles of the indigenous Khas, shooting at the moon subjected to an eclipse, at Attopeu (Laos), engraving by Eugene Burnand, to illustrate the story of Laos and the wild populations of Indo by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Friar Juniper cuts off the foot of a pig to give it to a sick man by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "A young friar by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection, c1898 by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Portrait of the author, surrounds his travelling companions. Engraving by Eugene Burnand, to illustrate the story “Journey in Upper Laos”, in 1880, by Dr. P.Neis. Published in Le Tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages, 2nd semester 1885, edited by Edou by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Francis makes Friar Masseo turn round many times to find the way he should go by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Dr. Harmand and His Annamite Helper Conducting Clandestine Exhumations of Khas Burials at Attopeu (Laos) by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Friar Giles and his companion faint with hunger in a deserted church by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Column of Bearers Through the Rice Fields, Between Bassac and Hue by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "A Monkay house. Engraving to illustrate the story")
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.jpg "St Francis sick in the Bishops Palace at Assissi by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "The wolf of Gubbio after his conversion by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "The repast of St Francis and Friar Masseo at the fountain. St Francis praises poverty by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Francis tames the wild Turtle Doves by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "A friar meditating in solitude by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Friar Giles working in the vineyard by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Clare by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Conversion of Friar Bernard of Quintavalle by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Francis by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Conferences Pagoda, Monkay (engraving by Eugene Burnand, to illustrate the story Sur les frontières du Tonkin, by Doctor P.Neiss, in le tour du monde 1888) by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "The Chapter of St Mary of the Angels near Assissi by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Francis preaching at Bologna by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "The drying of herbarium plants, on large bamboo clays, before the doctor classifies them and stores them in his crates, engraving by Eugene Burnand, to illustrate the story of Laos and the wild populations of Indochina by Doctor Harmand, in 1877, published by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Old Woman by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Dr. Harmand proceeds with anthropological measurements on the indigenous Khas (Engraving by Eugene Burnand) by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Friar Bentivoglia tends a leper by Eugene Burnand")
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_in_the_background_a_portrait_of_t_-_(MeisterDrucke-1050831).jpg "The Passage of the Riviere Se Touon (Se Touon), in the Background, a Portrait of the Traveller Narrator, Engraved After a Drawing by Eugene Burnand, to Illustrate the Story of Laos and the Wild Populations of Indochina, by Doctor Harmand, in 1877, Publishe by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Portrait of Dr Harmand, Engraving by Eugene Burnand, to Illustrate the Story of Laos and the Wild Populations of Indochina by Dr Harmand, in 1877, Published in")
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.jpg "Friar Burnard of Quintavelle by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "The Pearl of Great Price by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Francis on his deathbed by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Swiss Red Cross by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Francis and the friars discourse of God by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Mount La Verna by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Francis preaches to the birds by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "The Gleaners by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Friar Angel and the three brigands by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "The Talents, Bibbys Annual by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Friar Masseo is appointed doorkeeper by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Francis blesses the city of Assissi by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Assissi by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Francis sets forth to Friar Leo where perfect joy is found by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "The Apostles Peter and John on the Morning of the Resurrection, 1926 by Eugene Burnand")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1662751).jpg "Saint Francis by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "St Francis descending Mount La Verna with Friar Leo after the imprinting of the Holy Stigmas by Eugene Burnand")
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.jpg "Friar Masseo by Eugene Burnand")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1130701).jpg "The Round-up by Eugene Burnand")
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