Tériade

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Tériade, Pablo Manès, Pablo Gargallo and Christian Zervos in the Café du Dôme , Paris around 1930

Tériade , also E. Tériade (actually Stratis Eleftheriadis ( Greek Στρατής Ελευθεριάδης ); * May 2, 1897 in Variá near Mytilini on Lesbos ; † October 23, 1983 in Paris ), was a Greco-French art critic , art collector , editor and publisher . Tériade published numerous artist books by well-known modern artists and was one of the most influential personalities in the art scene in Paris in the 1930s and the post-war period.

Live and act

Stratis Eleftheriades, which is shortened after the final syllables of his birth name only "Tériade" or "E. Tériade ”, was born as the only son of a wealthy landowner in Variá, a suburb of Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos. He left Lesbos at the age of 18 to study law in Paris , but instead of pursuing a legal career , he joined the flourishing Parisian art market. From 1926 he published together with Christian Zervos (1889-1970), also from Greece, in Paris, 14, rue du Dragon, the art magazine Cahiers d'Art , which until 1960 was one of the most renowned publications on the Paris art market. Tériade was the editor-in-chief of the magazine and began writing art reviews. At the same time he wrote for the evening newspaper L'Intransigeant and wrote satirical chronicles about the art scene together with Maurice Raynal , which they published as "The Two Blind". At the end of the 1920s, Tériade discovered and promoted the painter and sculptor André Beaudin .

Minotaure and Verve , success as a publisher

Together with the Swiss publisher Albert Skira , he founded the Surrealism- related artist magazine Minotaure in 1933 , which published articles by all the important contemporary artists such as André Breton , Salvador Dalí , Fernand Léger , Man Ray , Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso . After discrepancies with Breton, he left Minotaure in 1936. Further publications such as the artist newspaper La Bête Noire (1936) and the quarterly, luxuriously designed art journal Verve (1937-1960) followed. Like Tériade's predecessor, Minotaure , Verve crystallized into a sophisticated cultural journal that paired texts by writers such as Georges Bataille , André Gide or Jean-Paul Sartre with photographs by Brassaï or Man Ray or Bible illustrations by Marc Chagall .

With the invasion of German troops in Paris in 1940 fled Tériade to his friend Henri Matisse in the Dordogne . Numerous artist books were created with Matisse, such as the colorful paper cut album Jazz from 1947, which is one of the masterpieces of book art. Jazz was the first in a series of 27 other artist books that Tériade published.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Tériade concentrated increasingly on the Parisian photography scene and published numerous illustrated books by Édouard Boubat , Bill Brandt , Henri Cartier-Bresson , Robert Doisneau , Izis and others. In 1972 he had his own book museum built in Variá, a suburb of Mytilene, in his birthplace, next to the Theofilos Museum there, which he co-financed in 1964 . In 1979 the Tériade Museum opened , showing the publisher's publications in sixteen rooms, including original editions of Tériade's magazines Minotaure and Verve . The museum also contains 29 rare books with works by Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier , Alberto Giacometti , Henri Matisse, Joan Miró , Pablo Picasso and other modern artists.

In 2000, Alice Tériade, the publisher's widow, bequeathed the complete collection of Verve magazine , the 27 artist's books and the associated 500 lithographs from the Tériades estate to the Matisse Museum in Matisse's birthplace, Le Cateau-Cambrésis , and she also left Matisse's there rebuild the designed dining room from Tériades summer residence on the Côte d'Azur.

meaning

Together with Christian Zervos, Tériade had almost monopoly control over all Paris art publications from the early 1930s to the mid-1970s. Through his acquaintance with the most important modern artists, Tériade is an important companion and documentary of Parisian art history.

literature

  • Hans Bolliger: Tériade Éditeur-Revue Verve . Klipstein & Kornfeld, 1960
  • Hommage à Tériade , Grand Palais, 16 May - 3 September 1973, textes de Michel Anthonioz , Paris, Grand Palais, Center National d'Art Contemporain, Paris 1973, ISBN 0-900946-24-5
  • André Beaudin, Michel Anthonioz: Hommage a Teriade . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-7927-0374-2
  • Rebecca Rabinow, The legacy of la Rue Férou: Livres d 'artiste created for Tériade by Rouault, Bonnard, Matisse, Léger, Le Corbusier, Chagall, Giacometti and Miró , thesis, New York University 1995
  • Tériade & les livres de peintres , textes de Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Claude Laugier, Dominique Szymusiak, Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 2002, ISBN 2-907545-33-7
  • Harriett Watts, Stefan Soltek : Tériade Éditeur Paris - The artist as an open book. The Artist as an open book. Tériade: Livres d'artiste from the painter's book cabinet of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Museum for Applied Art, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 978-3-88270-094-7
  • Niki Papadopoulou, Tériade et le livre de peintre manuscrit (1943–1975), Thèse, Sciences des textes et documents sous la dir. de Anne-Marie Christin, Paris 2004
  • Chagall et Tériade: l'empreinte d'un peintre , Musée Départemental Matisse - Le Cateau-Cambrésis. Catalog, textes de François Chapon, Céline Chicha, Montreuil, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2006, ISBN 2-35340-012-4
  • Chara Kolokytha: The Art Press and Visual Culture in Paris during the Great Depression: Cahiers d'Art, Minotaure and Verve . In: Visual Resources, An International Journal of Documentation 3 , vol. 29, Sept. 2013, pp. 184-215
  • Chara Kolokytha: L'amour de l'art en France est toujours aussi fécond: La Maison d'Editions Verve et la reproduction de manuscrits à peintures conservés dans les Bibliothèques de France pendant les années noires (1939–1944) . French Cultural Studies 2, vol. May 25, 2014, pp. 121-139

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cahiers d'art ( Memento of December 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), art-magazin.de, accessed on November 27, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c Angelika Heinick: The legacy of the Tériade. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. FAZ.NET, October 14, 2007, p. 67 , accessed on April 8, 2008 (No. 41).
  3. ↑ Matisse et Tériade, le peintre et l'éditeur d'art poète. Archived from the original on January 27, 2010 ; Retrieved April 8, 2008 (French).
  4. ↑ See web link Museum Tériade
personal data
SURNAME Tériade
ALTERNATIVE NAMES E. Teriade; Eleftheriades, Stratis; Eleftheriades, Elistratios (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greco-French art critic and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Variá near Mytilini on Lesbos
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1983
Place of death Paris