Aimé Maeght

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Aimé Maeght (born April 27, 1906 in Hazebrouck , France , † September 5, 1981 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence ) was a French lithographer , art dealer , gallery owner and editor of art magazines and books. Together with his wife Marguerite, he founded the private museum of modern art, the Fondation Maeght near Saint-Paul-de-Vence , in 1964 .

Aimé Maeght

Life

Aimé Maeght was born in 1906 in Flanders, France, near Lille . His father was killed in the First World War . The mother moved with the children to Lasalle in the south of France. In Nîmes he obtained a diploma as a lithographer. From 1926 he worked in Cannes .

In 1928 he married Marguerite Devaye (* 1909, † July 31, 1977). In 1930 their son Adrien was born. From 1932 the couple ran a shop in Cannes, including a small printing shop, in which they sold radios and furniture and exhibited pictures by local painters; the shop became a gallery in 1936. The painters included Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse . In 1942 the second son Bernard was born, who died of leukemia in 1953 .

Foundation of the Maeght Gallery in Paris

In 1946, after the Second World War , they opened the Maeght Gallery in Paris at 13 rue de Teheran (formerly Galerie Schoeller), which quickly became one of the most important addresses for modern art. Among the artists they presented and with whom they were also friends, were Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque , Joan Miró , Marc Chagall , Alexander Calder , Wassily Kandinsky , Kurt Seligmann and Germaine Richier , but also younger talents like Ellsworth Kelly , Antoni Tàpies , Eduardo Chillida , Jean-Paul Riopelle , Raoul Ubac , Valerio Adami . He promoted the young sculptor Alberto Giacometti at an early age and financed all bronze casts that were first exhibited in the Maeght Gallery in 1951. However, the exhibition was a financial disaster. At the same time, the art journal Derrière le miroir (abbreviated DLM ) appeared in the Éditions Maeght with a total of 201 editions (253 with double and triple editions) in the format 38 × 28 cm. It contained numerous original lithographs by well-known artists as well as reproductions. Previously unpublished articles were written by Louis Aragon , Samuel Beckett , René Char , Paul Éluard , Jacques Prévert , Raymond Queneau , Pierre Reverdy , Jean-Paul Sartre and other writers.

In 1947 the last surrealism exhibition organized by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp took place in the gallery : Le Surréalisme en 1947 . Duchamp's biographer Calvin Tomkins described it as the “last hurray of the movement.” The post-war era found other outlets, Existentialism in Europe and Abstract Expressionism in the United States . Joan Miró was also involved in the exhibition, and it was he who brought Aimé Maeght's attention to Josep Lluis Sert , who was to plan the architecture of the Maeght Foundation.

Foundation of the Maeght Foundation

In 1964, the Maeghts set up the Maeght Foundation in memory of their late son Bernard near Saint-Paul-de-Vence to display part of their private collection. The Fondation was the publisher of two art and poetry magazines: L'Éphémère , founded by Jacques Dupin , Gaëtan Picon , André du Bouchet , Yves Bonnefoy and Louis-René des Forêts , it was published from 1967 to 1972. From 1973 to 1981, Argile followed , founded by Claude Esteban . From 1965 onwards, the Maeghts organized summer concert weeks in the courtyard of the Fondation, the Nuits de la Fundation Maeght , which were directed by the French composer Francis Miroglio (1924-2005) until 1971 . In this context, Karlheinz Stockhausen performed a composition from his cycle From the Seven Days in 1968 . Well-known jazz groups such as Albert Ayler , Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra played regularly and recorded recordings that have become famous.

In 1974 another Maeght gallery was opened in Barcelona .

Marguerite Maeght died in 1977, Aimé Maeght in 1981. In 1957 Adrien Maeght, who had had a falling out with his father in 1957 and was the only heir to his mother, opened the Maeght gallery at 42 rue du Bac. The gallery in rue de Tehran was continued by Maeght's employees under the name Galerie Lelong from 1981.

The galleries, the Éditions Maeght and the Fondation will continue to be run by their descendants.

literature

  • Jan Birksted: Modernism and the Mediterranean: The Maeght Foundation (Histories of Vision) . Ashgate Publishing 2004, ISBN 0-7546-0179-X .
  • Yoyo Maeght: Maeght: l'aventure de l'art vivant . Éditions de La Martinière, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7324-3485-X .

Filmography

exhibition

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Derrière le mirroir , www.kettererkunst.com, accessed on October 9, 2011.
  2. ↑ Calvin Tomkins: Marcel Duchamp. A biography, p. 420 f
  3. ↑ Joan Miró , www.maeght.com accessed on 11 October 2011th
  4. ^ Galerie Maeght, Barcelona , www.barcelona.com, accessed on October 9, 2011.
  5. ↑ Quoted from the web link Le Delarge
personal data
SURNAME Maeght, Aimé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lithographer, art dealer, gallery owner and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hazebrouck , France
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1981
Place of death Saint-Paul-de-Vence