Émile-Jean Armel-Beaufils

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Émile-Jean Armel-Beaufils (born November 26, 1882 in Rennes , France , † February 21, 1952 in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer , France) was a French sculptor .

Life

Memorial to the dead of Rosporden designed by architect Charles Chaussepied, sculpture by Armel-Beaufils.

Armel-Beaufils began his training in Fougères , which he continued at the Lyceum in Rennes. He then studied law and literature. He took evening courses at the Ếcole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, but then attended this school full-time from 1902 to 1905. He then studied with Luc-Olivier Merson , Antonin Mercié and Jules Jacques Labatut at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited at the salons of the Société nationale des beaux-arts and won the bronze medal there in 1914. In 1921 he was awarded a silver medal. In 1924 his works were shown for the first time at the annual salon of the Société des Artistes Français , where he was present with his work until 1951.

At the beginning of the war in 1914, Armel-Beaufils was called up for military service, but was then released for health reasons. From 1917 and 1920 he worked on several war memorials in Brittany, as well as several memorials such as Anatole Le Braz in Perros-Guirec and Aristide Briand in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer. From 1929 he produced porcelain figures in collaboration with the Henriot manufactory in Quimper .

Some of Armel-Beaufils' bronzes were handcrafted by the Parisian foundry Susse Frères . He belonged to the artist group La Stèle founded by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) and sculptor Arthur Goldscheider in the early 1920s , whose work Goldscheider exhibited in 1925 at the Paris Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern .

He lived in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer with his partner Susanne Duvivier (1882–1952). The sculptress worked under the name Zannic Beaufils ; both worked together on some projects. Her best-known single work is the granite monument entitled Anatole Le Braz Écoutant Marc'harit Fulup in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer.

Works (selection)

Après le pardon , Musée des Beaux-Arts (Rennes)
  • La Ouessantine
  • La fille de la pluie
  • Bust de Henri Chan
  • Les deux amies
  • Les trois amies
  • Buste de garconnet
  • Un macareux moine
  • Soizig, jeune fille d'Ouessant
  • Nu assis
  • Le poète et la conteuse

The following works by Armel-Beaufils are shown at the Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes :

  • La Fée des Greves , 1942
  • Buste de jeune fille - Mademoiselle Lecourbe
  • Après le pardon
  • Le Procès de Jeanne d'Arc
  • Les Rameaux

literature

  • Anne-Louise et Yves Devaux: Armel et Zannic Beaufils / Anne-Louise et Yves Devaux. Association Namasté, Saint-Briac-sur-Mer 1996. 151 pp.
  • ARMEL-BEAUFILS, Émile Jean M. (died 1978). Sculptor. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.
  • Florence Rionnet: Pierres de Breizh. Le sculpteur Armel Beaufils (1882-1952). Exposition du 24 février au 30 septembre 2001, Dinard, Villa Eugénie-Musée du site balnéaire. Ville de Dinard, Dinard (Ille-et-Vilaine) 2001. 28 pp.
  • Jean Armel-Beaufils, Quimper . In: La sculpture . Service éducatif du musée des beaux-arts de Quimper, p. 5.
  • Corinne Prevel: La démarche régionaliste d'Armel Beaufils . In: Denise Delouche: La création bretonne 1900–1940 . Arts de l'Ouest, Rennes 1995, pp. 81-92.

Web links

Commons : Émile-Jean Armel-Beaufils  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beaufils, Armel (1882–1952). In: Bibliothèque nationale de France of February 11, 1997.
  2. ↑ Florence Rionnet: Pierres de Breizh. Le sculpteur Armel Beaufils (1882-1952). Exposition du 24 février au 30 septembre 2001, Dinard, Villa Eugénie-Musée du site balnéaire. Ville de Dinard, Dinard (Ille-et-Vilaine) 2001. 28 pp.
  3. ^ Anne-Louise et Yves Devaux: Armel et Zannic Beaufils / Anne-Louise et Yves Devaux. Association Namasté, Saint-Briac-sur-Mer 1996. p. 61
  4. ^ Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.
  5. ↑ Maison de villégiature, dite Kan an awel, 19 boulevard de la Mer (Saint-Briac-sur-Mer) . In: patrimoine.region-bretagne.fr .
  6. ↑ Zannic Beaufils monument . In: vanderkrogt.net
  7. ↑ J catalog - list of results. In: Base Joconde , Portail des collections des musées de France.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Bénézit names May 1, 1978 as the date of Armel-Beaufil's death.
personal data
SURNAME Armel-Beaufils, Émile-Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armel-Beaufils; Beaufils, Armel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes , France
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1952
Place of death Saint-Briac-sur-Mer , France