Edouard Bénédictus

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Édouard Bénédictus (* 1878 in Paris ; † January 28, 1930 ibid) was a French painter, composer, writer and chemist.

He started out as a bookbinder in 1897 and then designed furnishing materials. He met Maurice Ravel , whose song Noël des jouets was first performed on a musical evening at Bénédictus.

In 1903 he accidentally pushed a glass flask off the shelf in his laboratory and was amazed that it had not shattered. His assistant told him that the flask contained liquid celluloid that had evaporated , leaving a thin layer of plastic.

Shortly afterwards he read about a traffic accident in which a woman was seriously injured by the splintered windshield. After numerous experiments, he received a patent for his laminated glass in 1909. John Crew Wood had already filed a patent in 1905. However, the automotive industry showed little interest in his safety glass due to the cost.

In 1910 he developed a three-layer safety glass Triplex , which was used in aircraft during the First World War. In this process, two glass panels were coated one after the other with a gelatine and cellulose layer, then put together with a celluloid layer in a spirit bath and glued together using a hydraulic press at an elevated temperature to make them shatterproof. The German manufacturing rights acquired in the same year and one year before England and the US, the Aachen glass producer Ferdinand Kinon that this addition to the production of laminated safety glass for the automotive sector, particularly for the production of bullet-resistant glass for war tanks and colored laminated glass for aviator glasses began .

His work in the visual arts began in the Art Nouveau period . In 1912 he wrote an influential article in L'Art décoratif magazine . Then he continued to develop in the style of Art Deco . With his work portfolios “Variations” from 1923 and “Nouvelles Variationen” from 1928, he was one of the best-known sources of ideas for floral Art Deco. His designs were shown in the Pavillon de l'Ambassade Francaise at the Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels moderne in Paris in 1925. Among other things, he worked with the French artisan André Groult , for whose furniture he created numerous tapestries .

literature

  • Benedictus' art deco designs in color (with an introduction by Charles Rahn Fry), Constable, New York; Dover; London 1980, ISBN 0486239713 (English)
  • Musée des arts décoratifs (ed.): Édouard Bénédictus: rythme et couleur de l'Art Déco: gouaches, pochoirs, tissus (1922-1930) , Paris 1986 (French)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Édouard Bénédictus. (2011). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.bridica.com/EBchecked/topic/60620/Edouard-Benedictus
  2. ^ Benedictus, Edouard - Biography. In: artdecoceramicglasslight.com
personal data
SURNAME Bénédictus, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French inventor, painter, composer, writer and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1930
Place of death Paris