Pierre Waidmann (Remiremont, August 19, 1860 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, October 26, 1937) was a French painter and sculptor. He was a landscape painter and also a photographer.

Self-portrait with cigarette

Biography

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Pierre Waidmann, born into a wealthy family and sensitive to the arts, moved from his native Lorraine to Paris in the late 1870s to study with Ferdinand Humbert and François-Louis Français. Ten years later he was also a pupil of Alfred Roller and Henri Gervex.[1] In 1890 he took up residence in Paris, at 66 rue de Lisbonne [fr], but he still returned regularly to stay at the home of his grandfather, the collector Charles Friry [fr] (1802–1881)[2] where he painted numerous landscapes of the Vosges region.

In the historic 18th-century mansion where he was born,[3] Waidmann created the interior decorations (especially marquetry and overdoors) in many rooms. In about 1884, he even set up his atelier there. He died in 1937 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, at the age of 77.

In 2011, the two museums of Remiremont, the Charles de Bruyères Museum and the Charles-Friry Museum, dedicated a retrospective to him,[4] grouping together a hundred of his works, including sixty paintings, ceramics, terracottas and bindings.[5]

In February and March 1896 he had a show at Le Barc de Boutteville, an avant-garde gallery in Paris[6]

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Other works

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  • Dans le jardin, 1886
  • Au bord de la Moselle, environs de Remiremont, 1887
  • Un pré dans les Vosges
  • La Moselle, 1888
  • Première neige dans les Vosges
  • La Vallée de Saint-Amé, 1889
  • Ruisseau dans les Vosges, 1890
  • Soleil de Mars
  • Eau courante dans les Vosges
  • Mortagne dans les Vosges
  • La Moselle, 1894
  • Le Trou de Roisgneux, 1896

References

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  1. ^ Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysées (Description of Paintings and Works of Sculpture, Architecture, Engraving and Lithography of Living Artists Shown at the Palace of the Champs-Élysées), Société des artistes Français (Society of French Artists), beginning in 1879. Salon national des beaux-arts (National Fine Arts Salon), beginning in 1891. p.189
  2. ^ Le Pays lorrain (Lorraine Country), vol. 75, 1994, p. 325.
  3. ^ Which later became a museum with the museum of France designation
  4. ^ Pierre Waidmann, un artiste en résidence (Pierre Waidmann, An Artist in Residence)
  5. ^ mylorraine.fr
  6. ^ Biography

Bibliography

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  • Pierre Waidmann… : l'exposition de ses tableaux (Pierre Waidmann: A Showing of his Paintings), "Galerie des artistes modernes” (Gallery of Modern Artists), Paris, 1905.
  • Exposition Pierre Waidmann, "Galerie Georges Petit", 1907.
  • Léopold Honoré, Nos artistes: Pierre Waidmann (Our Artists: Pierre Weismann), in "La revue lorraine illustrée", Number 3, July–September 1910, pp. 93–96.
  • Pierre Heili, Pierre Waidmann, in "Les Vosgiens célèbres. Dictionnaire biographique illustré" (Famous People of the Vosges: Illustrated Biographical Dictionary), Albert Ronsin ed. Vagney, published by Editions Gérard Louis, 1990, pp. 367–368 – ISBN 2-907016-09-1.
  • Roland Conilleau, Jean-Pierre Stocchetti, Pierre Waidmann, une vie d'artiste (Pierre Waidmann, An Artist's Life), Haroué, Ediz. Gérard Louis, 2011, 96pp. – ISBN 978-2-357-63028-4.
  • Pierre Waidmann (1860–1937), un peintre en résidence (Pierre Waidmann (1860–1937), An Artist in Residence, municipal museums, 2011, 36 pp. (Catalog of the retrospective).

See also

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