Paul-Émile Borduas

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Paul-Émile Borduas

Paul-Émile Borduas (born November 1, 1905 in Mont-Saint-Hilaire / Québec , † February 22, 1960 in Paris ) was a Canadian painter.

Borduas was a student of the church painter Ozias Leduc and studied after attending the École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal from 1928 to 1930 in Paris. From 1937 he taught at the École du Meuble of the Montreal Art College .

With some students he founded the group Les Automatistes in Montreal in the early 1940s . A selection of her works was put together by Jean-Paul Riopelle and Fernand Leduc for an exhibition entitled Automatisme in the Galerie du Luxembourg in Paris in 1947 . The Refus Global manifesto appeared in 1948, and all of the signatories were awarded the Prix ​​Condorcet in 1998.

"" To the devil with a Weihfels and Pfaffenhut! " That means rejection of the overwhelming influence of the Catholic Church. "

- Manifest "Refus global" and interpretation of the sentence :

His commitment to automatism cost him his teaching post, and in the following years Borduas had to struggle not only with health problems but also with financial problems; In addition, the artists of the automatist groups increasingly went their own way, and this dissolved. Borduas moved to New York in 1953 and came under the influence of representatives of abstract expressionism such as Willem de Kooning , Adolph Gottlieb , Robert Motherwell , Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline . In 1955 he returned to Paris, where he died of a heart attack after five productive years as a painter.

In 1971 the exhibition Borduas et les Automatistes was shown in Paris and Montreal . In 1977 the prize for painting of the "Prix du Québec" was named after him Prix ​​Paul-Émile-Borduas .

Works

  • Maurice Gagnon , 1937
  • Tahitian , 1941
  • Trees in the Night , 1943
  • Sous le vent de l'Ile , 1947
  • Floraison Massive , 1951
  • Pulsation , 1955
  • White Ground , 1956
  • Black Star , 1957
  • The Seagull , 1957

Works in public collections

  • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Honors

See also

literature

  • Sophie Dubois: "Refus global." Histoire d'une réception partial. Presses de l ' Université de Montréal 2017
  • François-Marc Gagnon: Paul-Émile Borduas, 1905-1960. Biography critique et analyze de l'œuvre. Coll. Artistes Canadiens. National Gallery of Canada, 1976; Fides, 1978 ISBN 0775506982 McClelland & Stewart, 1990 (French) Governor General's Awards , essay section, 1978
    • Translated into English by Peter Feldstein: Paul-Émile Borduas, 1905 - 1960. National Gallery of Canada, 1976; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1989; Northeastern University Press 1990; McGill-Queen's University Press 2013 (= Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History, 12). Governor General's Awards, Translation French -> English, 2014
  • Ursula Mathis-Moser: Time of Refusal, in Reingard M. Nischik u. a. Ed .: Canadian literary history. Cape. Arrival in the Modern 1918-1967 , Paragraph The French-Canadian Literature. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2005, p. 183f. (with picture of Borduas)

Web links

Commons : Paul-Émile Borduas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

notes

  1. ↑ "hyssop" as a symbol of the ruling in Quebec Catholic clergy, "Poodle Hat" (la tuque) as an expression of the priestly biretta , which is centrally crowned with a tassel like a bobble hat.
  2. ↑ Übers. Lothar Baier: America writing differently. Literature from Québec. Ed. Lothar Baier , Pierre Filion. Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2000, pp. 292-297. The translated original text is here supplemented before and after by texts on movement. In French see web links, full text
personal data
SURNAME Borduas, Paul-Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Mont-Saint-Hilaire , Quebec
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1960
Place of death Paris