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The Eiffel tower seen by artists

For whose who like painting : the various glances of painters on the Eiffel tower.
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The Eiffel tower, was built at the time of the World and the centennial of the French Revolution. It should be the quintessential symbol of Paris and of the brilance of french industrial engineering, and was designed to be a temporary structure. The construction of the Tower was undertaken in 1887 and it was inaugurated in March 1889.. The genuine inventors of the Tower are two engineers of the team Eiffel, Emile Nouguier (french) and Maurice Larchevêque. They establish the plans with the architect Henri Sauvestre who had the idea to install platforms accessible to the public. For the engineers, it was a question of proposing a pylon of 984 feet (300 meters). The architect redrewed the project by giving him his current form, with its arches and its livable platforms . The history kept the prestige of the realization only to the profit of Gustave Eiffel whose merit was to deposit the patent (1884), then to give his approval for the realization. When it engaged in the project of the tower, the company Eiffel had already a consequent know-how in the construction of metal works : the railway station of Budapest, the frame statue of Freedom in New York, a bridge on Douro in Portugal, and the viaduct of Garabit. On January 28, 1887 began the building of the tower. The assembly of the tower ended on March 30, 1889. Restaurants where on the first flloor, to "satisfy concrete human material need". On the second floor, there was the newspaper le Figaro and a telegraph office from which il was possible to send messages around the world.
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The tower will be lighted by 90.000 gas burners (!), replaced by 4000 incandescent lamps, in 1900. In 1957, a TV antenna is added to the top, carrying the height with 1063 feet (324 meters) . The cost of construction was of 7.400.000 francs. During the World Fair of 1889, the receipts were 6.500.000 F. The subsidy of the town of Paris was of 1.500.000 francs . The total duration of work was 2 years, 2 months and 5 days. The number of workers necessary to assemble the tower was of 121, and we have to to add the 326 workers which worked within the Eiffel company. One needed 18.000 different parts, assembled by 2.500.000 rivets including 1.050.846 posed on the building site. The tower have 1710 steps. The weight of the tower was at the time of 7.112 tons . There are 3 observation platforms, at 200, 400 and 900 feet. When the weather allows it, the limits from the point of view are 37 miles (60 kilometers) to north, 43,5 mi (70km) in the west, 34,2 mi (55km) towards the south and 40,4 mi (65 km) in the east (Conversion table). In 1900, the 90 000 gas burners installed to illuminate the tower in 1889 are replaced by 4 000 incandescent lamps. In 1937, the lighting is provided by fluorescent tubes and 750 projectors oriented to the summit of the Tower. In 1957, an antenna is added that increased the height up more than 320 metres. In 2000, two antennas are added, the height is now 324 meters. Nowodays, the tower’s two Otis Duo-lift elevators travel at speeds of 500 feet per minute (2.5 meters per second) and can carry 40 passengers up and 40 passengers down simultaneously.
Eiffel Tower and art
Just after the Eiffel Tower was built, a lot of french artists, as Charles Gounod, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas jr, François Coppée, Leconte de Lisle, William Bouguereau, Charles Garnier , Paul Verlaine, Guy de Maupassant, criticized the Tower. However, the tower was gradually part of the Parisian landscape.
Painting
As soon as 1888, the Tower was painted by Georges Seurat even before it was finished and by Paul-Louis Delance . From 1910, a series of paintings made by great painters such as le Douanier Rousseau, Paul Signac, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Utrillo, Marcel Gromaire, Edourd Vuillard, Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall, Maurice Utrillo, Henti Riviere..and many contemporary artists, such as Laurent Veyretout. In Nineteenth-century European Art by Terry W. Strieter wrote " The oil painting "La Tour" (1910-1911) by Robert Delaunay. The artist, a member of of the "Cubist pantheon, by 1909 developed his own expression of radiant and elegant forms loosely based on Paul Cézanne's shattering of forms. After a series of canvases of St Severin church, in 1910 he turned his attention to the Eiffel tower, where he stressed the immateriality of the structure. Delaunay (1885-1941) willfully distorted the tower by breaking it into multifaceted and multicolored surfaces. Already, in this work of 1910-11, he began to introduce rainbow patterns of color that were forerunners of his later studies of pure light and color..."
How the Tower was kept alive
In 1898 (5 of november) happened the first broadcast radio signals, headed by Eugene Ducretet, from Eiffel Tower to Pantheon (4km). Eugene Ducretet was one of the pioneers of radio . in 1903 a radio link is established with the strong near Paris, then with the East of France, one year later. In 1906, The tower is used as a telegraph relay station with an emitting radius of 3000 km, which will ensure its survival. In 1921 the first public radio show in Europe, will be broadcast from antennas installed on the Eiffel Tower. We can say that the broadcasting programs saved the Eiffel Tower!


Paintings

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Women at Eiffel tower during the worlf fair in 1889 by Louis Jimenez Aranda
Litho of the Tower during the worlf fair in 1889

Illumination of Eiffel Tower during the world fair in 1889 by Georges Garen
Eiffel Tower under snow by Georges Yoldjoglou

Poster of Eiffel tower by Robert Delaunay

Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay1912
Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay 1910
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The Eiffel Tower and the Elephant by Fremiet by Jules Ernest Renoux
Eiffel Tower by Andrey Shwidkid

Eiffel tower by Diego Rivera 1914
Eiffel Tower by Anna Ganina

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The river Seine and Eiffel Tower by Georges Jamet
The river Seine and Eiffel Tower by André Bardet

Tour Eiffel by Marcel Gromaire
Eiffel Tower by Henri Rousseau 1898

Tour Eiffel by Raymond-Moretti

Eiffel Tower seen from river Seine by Paul Louis Delance
Eiffel Tower in building, from a series of 36 lithographs based on views of Mount Fuji of Hokusai by Henri-Riviere-

Tour Eiffel from seen Pantheon by Katsuaki Sato
Eiffel Tower by Katsuaki Sato
Eiffel Tower byGeorges Seurat 1889
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Eiffel Tower by Raoul Dufy 1935
Eiffel Afternoon by Krys Gieskieng

Eiffel tower by Maurice Utrillo 1955
Eiffel tower by R Weil
Tour Eiffel seen from Trocadero by Louis Welden Hawkins

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Illumination of the Tower for the world fair in 1937 by André Granet
Tour Eiffel 2003 by André Barjou
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Bride & Groom of the Eiffel Tower by Marc Chagall
Tour eiffel sketch for the angel of Mozart by Marc Chagall

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Eiffel Tower serenade by Marc Chagall
Vision of Paris by Marc Chagall 1960
Mother and child at Tower by Marc Chagall 1954

Green Eiffel Tower by Marc Chagall
Vision of Paris by Marc Chagall 1952
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Across the Rooftops The Eiffel Tower by Sandy Starr
Eiffel tower and Seine river side

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Eiffel Tower by Cierra McGuckie
Eiffel tower by Lynne Neuman
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Bursting Eiffel tower 2004 by Emilia Kallock
Wheels of Eiffel tower by Erika Wain
Winndow on the Tower by Joaquin Mateo
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Characters around the Tower by Lagzouli
Eiffel tower by Matthew Blank

Eiffel tower seen from Alexandre III bridge by Fradet

Eiffel Tower by Gustav Bolin
Eiffel Tower by Matt Getz 1992

100th anniversary of the tower by Guy Buffet
Eiffel Tower by Yasuko Uemura
Eiffel Tower with bunch of flowers by Maurille Prevost

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Eiffel Tower and Tower seen from Alexandre III bridge by Bernard Buffet
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At the foot of Eiffel Tower by Jean Carzou
Eiffel Tower with bunch of flowers by Michel Henry

Eiffel Tower before fireworks by Yann Gourvennec 2007
Paris for lovers by Nahda Balaa

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The Tower seen from place de la Concorde and from Trocadéro by night by Laurent Veyretout

The Tower seen from Alexandre III bridge by night by Laurent Veyretout
"Bonjour Paris" by Jean Peltier