Ambroise Vollard
Ambroise Vollard (born July 3, 1865 in Saint-Denis on the island of Réunion , † July 22, 1939 in Versailles ) was a French art dealer, gallery owner and publisher. He is one of the most important personalities in the art of the twentieth century.
Life
Vollard opened Paul Cézanne's first solo exhibition in November 1895 . In his gallery he showed a selection of 50 out of around 150 works that Cézanne had sent him as a package. In 1901 he held the first exhibition of Pablo Picasso's works , and in 1904 the first Matisse exhibition.
The artists whose works he represented included the artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne, as well as Maurice de Vlaminck , who were still very controversial at the time . His exhibition rooms were points of contact for numerous artists. With him, for example, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Émile Zola . Paula Modersohn-Becker and Clara Westhoff saw works by Cézanne and Paul Gauguin for the first time in his art dealership , which had a decisive influence on their art development.
His clients included the Russian art collector Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin .
Ambroise Vollard also worked as an author and publisher. Due to his diverse relationships with the avant-garde of French art, he succeeded in winning the best painters of his time as book illustrators. The works published by him are among the most important achievements in the field of bibliophile book design.
Ambroise Vollard died in 1939 at the age of 74 in the Clinique des Franciscains in Versailles of the consequences of a car accident that had occurred the day before. The funeral ceremony took place on July 28th of that year in the Parisian church of Sainte Clothilde. The art dealer rests in the cemetery in Bagneux near Paris.
In 2010, the part of his collection that had been kept in a vault of a Paris bank since 1939 was auctioned in London and Paris. This part of the legacy could only be secured by Vollard's heirs through years of legal disputes against Vollard's young friend, Erich Slomovic, and his heirs as their heir.
Representations (selection)
It is worth mentioning the large number of portraits depicting the art dealer, the comparison of which allows conclusions to be drawn about the relationship between the respective artist and the dealer and the light in which he saw him or wanted to make him appear. The work by Cézanne from 1899 is demonstrably a commissioned work. Under what circumstances the other portraits were made has not yet been clarified.
- 1899: Portrait of Ambroise Vollard by Paul Cézanne, oil on canvas, 101 × 81 cm, Paris, Petit Palais , Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
- 1900: Hommage à Cézanne by Maurice Denis , oil on canvas, 180 × 242 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay ; the group portrait shows, together with the artist, his wife Marthe and Ambroise Vollard, the following people gathered around a painting by Cézanne: Odilon Redon , Édouard Vuillard , André Mellerio , Paul Sérusier , Paul Ranson , Ker-Xavier Roussel and Pierre Bonnard
- 1904: Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (with his cat) by Pierre Bonnard , oil on canvas, 74 × 92 cm, Kunsthaus Zürich
- 1906: Portrait of Ambroise Vollard with a red headscarf , by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, oil on canvas, 30 × 25 cm, Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
- 1910: Portrait of Ambroise Vollard by Pablo Picasso , oil on canvas, 93 × 66 cm, Moscow , Pushkin Museum
- 1917: Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a torero costume by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, oil on canvas, 102 × 84 cm, Tokyo , Nippon Television Network Corporation
- around 1924: Ambroise Vollard and his cat , by Pierre Bonnard, oil on canvas, 96.5 × 111 cm, Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
- 1994: La vie de Vollard from Erró , Musée Léon Dierx in Saint Denis de la Réunion
Awards
- 1925: Knight of the Legion of Honor
Works
- Paul Cezanne . Galerie Vollard, 6, Rue Laffitte, Paris 1914
- Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir . Chez Ambroise Vollard, 28, Rue de Gramont, Paris 1918
- La Vie et L'Œuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir . Chez Ambroise Vollard, 28, Rue de Gramont, Paris 1919
- Le Pére Ubu a la Guerre . Ambroise Vollard, Éditeur, 28, Rue de Martignac, Paris 1923
- Degas / Ambroise Vollard . B. Cassirer, Berlin 1925
- La Vie de Sainte Monique . Ambroise Vollard, Éditeur, 28, Rue de Martignac, Paris 1930
- Le Réincarnation de Pére Ubu . Ambroise Vollard, Éditeur, 28, Rue de Martignac, Paris 1932
- Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux . Albin Michel, Paris 1937; German: Memories of an art dealer , Ullstein, Frankfurt a. M. 1957 and Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1957; exp. New edition: Diogenes Verlag, Zurich (5th edition) 1989, ISBN 978-3-257-21749-0
literature
- Rudolf Koella / Rudolf Velhagen (eds.): Renoir Cézanne Picasso and her gallery owner Ambroise Vollard , Edition Braus at Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-89904-203-4
- Jean-Paul Morel: C'était Ambroise Vollard , Fayard, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-2136-2472-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Ambroise Vollard in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Ambroise Vollard in the German Digital Library
- Musée d'Orsay: The Vollard gallery
- Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde (English)
- Die Welt Online: Vollard and the Paris Tresor (April 24, 2010)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arte ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sergei Schtschukin - Passionate Art Collector, October 30, 2016, 5:30 p.m., 53 min.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vollard, Ambroise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French art dealer, gallery owner and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Denis (Réunion) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1939 |
| Place of death | Versailles |