Alix Aymé

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Alix Angèle Marguerite Aymé , b. Hava (* 1894 in Marseille ; † 1989 in Paris ) was a French painter who lived in China and Vietnam .

Life

Alix was born in Marseille and grew up in Périgord . Her youth moved between quiet country life and extensive trips with her parents, including to Egypt and Syria. Equally musically and artistically gifted, she took music and drawing courses at the Conservatoire de Toulouse , a branch of the Paris Conservatory . After graduating from the conservatory, she moved to Paris. As a student and later as an employee of Maurice Denis , she worked on the design of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and in the Ateliers d'Art Sacré founded by Denis in 1919 .

In 1920 she married Paul de Fautereau-Vassel, who was sent to the French-Chinese mission as a teacher of literature. She accompanied him to Shanghai and later to Hanoi . From there she made several trips to China in 1921 as a member of scientific expeditions. From 1925 she taught drawing at the French Lyceum in Hanoi. In 1926 the couple returned to Paris, where their son Michel was born. During this time Alix was commissioned to illustrate a French edition of Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim . When her husband decided to stay in France, she returned to Asia alone with their son.

In 1930 she had her own exhibition in Saigon. She settled in Luang Prabang , Laos, and became acquainted with the family of King Sisavang Vong , who commissioned her to create a series of murals in the Haw Kham royal palace (now a museum). After her return to Hanoi in 1931, she began teaching at the Lycée Albert-Sarraut and helped spark new interest in lacquer painting . In June of the same year she married Colonel Georges Aymé in Paris, later as general commander of the French army in Indochina, and brother of the later writer Marcel Aymé . She also exhibited her works in a gallery in Paris and was involved in the design of the Laos pavilion for the Paris colonial exhibition on behalf of the French government . In 1935 a large solo exhibition followed in Saigon. In the following years she made numerous trips to Indochina , India , Ceylon , Japan and Korea . She recorded her impressions in drawings. In March 1945, the Aymé family and their two sons were taken prisoner in Japan, where the eldest son Michel died in an internment camp.

In the same year, Alix finally returned to Paris. She took on the design of a chapel with lacquered panels in Douvres-la-Délivrande (Calvados), which represent 14 stations of the cross. During this time she became a close friend and collaborator of the painter Tsuguharu Foujita . In 1948 she moved into a studio in Porte de St. Cloud, where she lived and worked after the death of her husband in 1950.

She had several exhibitions, for example in 1948 in the Galerie Moullot in Paris, the Galerie de la France d 'Outremer in the Rue de la Boétie, in 1952 with her lacquer work in Florence, which subsequently in Paris in the Galerie de la France d' Outremer and in 1961 at Galerie Rauch in Monaco.

In 1952 she published on lacquer art in the Journal Tropique, in 1960 she wrote and illustrated the seven-part story Paul et Kao au Laos about her experiences in Laos, and in 1961 an article for the Journal Pax Christi. In 1962 she made another eight-month trip to Brazzaville in the Congo to paint there.

A first exhibition of Aymé's work in America took place in 2012 under the title Alix Ayme: European Perception and Asian Poeticism in the Evergreen Museum and Library of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, which her development as an artist over four decades based on her paintings, drawings, Lacquer panels and book illustrations are shown, from her early works, influenced by the Nabis painter Maurice Denis , to her modernist landscapes with Asian influences. Her work can be found in numerous public collections and museums, such as the Cabinet des Dessins in the Louvre , the Musée des Années Trente in Paris, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Rochelle, and the royal palace in Luang Prabang.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baltimore City Paper: Alix Ayme's art explores a world in upheaval , August 29, 2012
  2. ^ Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication: Monuments historiques . Retrieved January 16, 2016
  3. ↑ Congrégation Notre Dame de Fidélité: La chapelle Lalique, tabernacle de lumière . Retrieved October 23, 2014
  4. ^ Johns Hopkins University: Alix Aymé: European Perception and Asian Poeticism . Retrieved October 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Aymé, Alix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hava, Alix (maiden name); Fautereau-Vassel, Alix de (name in first marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH 1989
Place of death Paris