Berthe Noufflard

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Berthe Noufflard , née Langweil (born July 5, 1886 in Paris , † October 11, 1971 there ) was a French portrait painter. She was married to André Noufflard .

biography

Berthe Noufflard was born as the daughter of Florine Langweil , a well-known art dealer, like her sister in an art-loving environment. Artists such as Henri Riviére , Jacques-Émile Blanche and Alexis Rouart frequented the Langweil household .

The first pictures were taken in her youth; thus pictures from 1904 are known. From 1905 she took lessons from Jacques-Émile Blanche. She achieved her first success with the acceptance of one of her pictures at the Autumn Salon in 1907 at the Société nationale des beaux-arts . In 1910 she met André Noufflard through her teacher Jacques-Émile Blanche. From this year she also attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière , where she took the course with Lucien Simon . The two married in 1911. In 1914 her husband was drafted into the Italian army and Berthe Noufflard stayed behind in Paris. In 1915 the first daughter, Henriette was born. In addition to painting, she also began making dolls. These are exhibited in the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris , among others . In 1920 the second daughter, Geneviève, was born. The Touring Club de France commissioned her in 1922 to create several dolls with a regional character, which were also carried out. Furthermore, several exhibitions with dolls were organized.

Berthe Noufflard traveled a lot with her husband and also with Henri Rivière, who was a close friend of the family. Berthe Noufflard first spent the beginning of the Second World War near Toulouse and then on her country estate in the Dordogne , where Rivière would also survive the war years.

Over 700 amateur films made between 1925 and 1940 by Noufflard and his wife have survived .

Noufflard exhibited at the renowned Brame & Lorenceau gallery and Paul Durand-Ruel . Furthermore, she was represented with numerous pictures in the salons of the Société nationale des beaux-arts , Salon des indépendants and the Salon des Tuileries .

Works in museum possession

  • Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen : Portrait de Madame Jacques Emile Blanche, née Rose Lemoine (Portrait of Madame Emile Blanche, nee Rose Lemoine)
  • Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen: Portrait de Catherine et Marie (dite Yoyo) Lemoinne (Portrait of Catherine and Marie (called Yoyo) Lemoine)
  • Musée Carnavalet : Le Carnaval (Souvenir d'un ballet russe) (The Carnival (memory of a Russian ballet)
  • Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris: Le petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood)

literature

  • Henriette Noufflard Guy-Loé, Geneviève Noufflard: André Noufflard, Berthe Noufflard, leur vie, leur peinture , 1982, ISBN 978-2-904270-00-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joconde: Portail des collections des musées de France: Portrait de Madame Jacques Emile Blanche, née Rose Lemoine , accessed on November 23, 2017
  2. ↑ Joconde: Portail des collections des musées de France: Portrait de Catherine et Marie (dite Yoyo) Lemoine , accessed on November 23, 2017
  3. ↑ Joconde: Portail des collections des musées de France: Le Carnaval (Souvenir d'un ballet russe) , accessed on November 23, 2017
  4. ↑ Joconde: Portail des collections des musées de France: Little Red Riding Hood , accessed on November 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Noufflard, Berthe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langweil, Berthe (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1971
Place of death Paris