Auguste-Jean Gaudin

Auguste-Jean Gaudin (born July 29, 1914 in Argentré du Plessis , Ille-et-Vilaine , † May 23, 1992 ) was a French painter and engraver.

biography

From April 17, 1929 to March 31, 1930 Auguste-Jean Gaudin was employed by the Zappone et Pénard company in Rennes . From April 1, 1930 to September 30, 1931 he worked for the corsetry dealer J. Even in Rennes. From October 1931 to May 1932 he was a student of Pierre Galle at the School of Fine Arts in Rennes (École des beaux-arts de Rennes). From 1933 he served as a soldier in the 1st Zouave Regiment in Casablanca . He then worked from 1938 for the electrical metalworking company in Saint-Ouen . During the Second World War he was a prisoner of war in Stalag IV C in the Sudetenland in what is now the Czech Republic (Most region).

His art depicts scenes from everyday life and paints a picture of contemporary society shaped by expressionism. In 1948 he received the Blumenthal Prize for an engraving. In 1950 he married Jacqueline Auberty, assistant in the graphics and photography department of the French National Library .

Gaudin became a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Douai (École des beaux-arts de Douai).

Public collections

• Musée de la Chartreuse , Douai : Les Nouvelles écluses de Douai, oil on canvas, 1.00 × 0.81, signed, purchased before 1950.
• Épinal , musée départemental des Vosges : La Séance de modèle vivant, ink drawing, donated by the artist in 1970.
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes : Ducasse de Gayant à Douai, donated by the artist in 1989.
• Paris, Cabinet des estampes et de la photographie of the National Library: about forty prints.
• Rennes, Musée des beaux-arts : Près de Saint-Briac, picture in black and gray ink, 0.56 × 0.76, signed and dated 1959, acquired in 1959
• In unknown places: six works by the artist were ordered by the French state and are recorded in the “Arcade” database: culture.gouv.fr .

Quotes

• Gaudin has put himself at the forefront of contemporary engraving through his ornate craft and dark and tragic inspiration. His wife worked as an assistant on several editions of this inventory.

- Jean Adhémar, op.cit. P. 443

• “(En) The Print Department is pleased to announce the acquisition of representative groups of prints by Michel Ciry and Auguste-Jean Gaudin through the generous gift of Mr. Hiram C. Merill of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who has long since been an interested friend of the Department. The etchings of these young French artistes were honored by the Comité National de la Gravure Française by the inclusion of their work in the exchange exhibition of Contemporary French Prints, which was shown in the Wiggin Gallery during the months of October and November 1952. If one can judge the result of this recent international exchange between our two countries, it would be safe to say that a sense of growing kinship between them has developed with a greater understanding through the graphic arts. Since it has always been felt that knowledge of French art is indispensable, especially on the cooper plate are eagerly sought. »

- Arthur W. Heintzelmann, "Prints of Michel Ciry and Auguste-Jean Gaudin", in The Boston Public Library quarterly, avril 1953, p. 107-110.

Exhibitions

• Paris, Les Peintres-Graveurs Français, 1947
• Paris, Le Cercle de la Librairie, 1947
• Boston, 1953
• Florence, 1972

literature

• Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Vol. 8, Follet-Gavarni, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1954, pp. 443-443.
• Jean-Marie Dunoyer, “Hommage à Félix Bracquemond”, Le Monde, September 26, 1974, para. 19th