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Jun 21, 1838 Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Died on 28 Jun 1902 (aged 64)
Swiss artist (1838-1902)
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About Édouard Castres
- Édouard Castres (21 June 1838 in Geneva – 28 June 1902 in Annemasse) was a Swiss painter.
- Castres studied fine arts with Barthélemy Menn in Geneva before enrolling in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
- He took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 as a Red Cross volunteer accompanying General Bourbaki's Eastern Army throughout the last phase of the war.
- With collaborators he executed, in 1881, a large-scale panorama showing the withdrawal of Bourbaki's army into Switzerland and its internment.
- This Panorama is displayed in a rotunda in Lucerne.
