Alexandre Noll

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Alexandre Henri Noll (born May 19, 1890 in Reims , France , † November 30, 1970 in Fontenay-aux-Roses , France) was a French wood sculptor and furniture designer .

Life

Alexandre Noll came from a family in Alsace and was born in Reims. He started out as a bank clerk. He spent the First World War in Macedonia, during which he made numerous watercolor sketches and wood engravings . It was not until the 1920s that his main occupation was artistic design.

Noll began with copies of Chinese art, umbrella handles and feet for lamps in the style of Art Deco , which he made for the fashion designer Paul Poiret . Noll was a member of the artist group L'Evolution , founded by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) Arthur Goldscheider , to which numerous craftsmen and decorators belonged. In 1925 he made clogs for the shoe designer André Perugia (1893–1977).

In the same year he took part in the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern , for which he had designed a number of sculptures. In 1927 he exhibited at the Crémaillère gallery , which was dedicated to discovering new talent. In 1935 he began producing his "furniture sculptures", which he made from plane wood, mahogany, teak and ebony, among other things. He took part in the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 , where he showed some vases, jugs and dishes made of wood and polished. In 1939 he exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and in 1940 at the seventh La Triennale di Milano .

During the Second World War , Noll developed his own style with his furniture and sculpture designs. Contrary to the trend towards mass production that prevailed after the war, he produced wooden furniture individually. In the 1950s, Noll finally turned to wood sculpture and took part with his works in numerous exhibitions in France, including De la Sculpture de Rodin à nos jours and Aux Arts de la table in the Pavillon de Marsan, where he was at the interior designer’s stand Jacques Adnet was involved, as well as in other exhibitions in Munich, Madrid, Vienna, London, Varèse and others.

literature

  • Olivier Jean-Elie, Pierre Passebon: Alexandre Noll . Editions du regard, Paris 1999
  • Pierre Joly: Alexandre Noll. Sculptures récentes, ébène. Messine Gallery, Paris 1996
  • Christie's : Historical design. 21 years for the 21st century. Auction, New York, December 19, 2006. Christie's, New York 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexandre Noll. In: RKD -Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
  2. ↑ Dominique Viéville, Henry Lhotellier: Réalités nouvelles. 1946-1956. Exposition, Musée des beaux-arts de Calais, 9 février-8 avril 1980. Musée des beaux-arts de Calais, 1980.
  3. ^ A b Anne Bony: Furniture & Interiors of the 1940s . Flammarion, 2003. ISBN 2-08011-158-2 , p. 212.
  4. ↑ a b Alexandre Noll (1890-1970). In: chastel-marechal.com
  5. ↑ Die Weltkunst, Volume 74, Issues 1-6. 2004, p. 111.
  6. ^ Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.
personal data
SURNAME Noll, Alexandre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noll, Alexandre Henri (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French wood sculptor and furniture designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Reims , France
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1970
Place of death Fontenay-aux-Roses , France