Alice Rahon

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Alice Rahon , nee Alice Marie Ivonne Philippot , married name Alice Paalen (born June 8, 1904 in Chenecey-Buillon , † 1987 in Mexico City ), was a French writer and surrealist artist.

biography

Alice Phillipot was born in 1904 in the village of Chenecey-Buillon in the Franche-Comté region of France. In 1931 she fell in love with the Austrian painter Wolfgang Paalen , with whom she had been married since 1934. His surrealistic style inspired her poetry. In 1936 she traveled to India with the poet Valentine Penrose . In the same year she published the volume of poetry À même la terre (1936) as Alice Paalen , followed by Sablier couché (1939) and Noir animal (1941), also under the name Alice Paalen.

In 1939 she went to British Columbia with Paalen and their mutual friend Eva Sulzer . In the same year the three artists traveled to Mexico , where they were recorded by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera . Here Alice began to paint under the guidance of Paalen, worked from 1942 to 1944 with the magazine Dyn , founded by Paalen and the Peruvian César Moro , and exhibited for the first time in 1944 at the Galería de Arte Mexicano . Exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles followed . She had love affairs with the writer Elizabeth Smart and with the artist Sonja Sekula . In 1947, Paalen divorced her and she took the name Rahon, which is believed to come from her Breton grandmother. Some of her work can be seen today at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

literature

  • Tere Arcq: Alice Rahon. Una surrealista en México (1939-1987) , exhibition catalog, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rahon, Alice in: German Biography
  2. ↑ see also the recently published biography of Wolfgang Paalen: Neufert, Andreas: Auf Liebe und Tod. The life of the surrealist Wolfgang Paalen . Parthas, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3869640839
personal data
SURNAME Rahon, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philippot, Alice Marie Ivonne (maiden name); Paalen, Alice (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Chenecey Buillon
DATE OF DEATH 1987
Place of death Mexico city