Claudius Linossier

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Claudius Linossier (born November 21, 1893 in Lyon , France , † October 8, 1953 ) was a French Dinanderier .

Life

Vase by Claudius Linossier (around 1937) in the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris

Linossier was the son of a Lyon silk weaver. He began an apprenticeship with a locksmith at the age of about eleven and later worked for Berger-Nesme, a local silversmith who specialized in religious products. In 1913 he entered the military and took part in the First World War. In 1919 he was employed by the Parisian house Maison Cardeilhac , which manufactured and sold gold and silver goods. Here he carried out enamel and inlay work.

In the same year he entered the studio of the Dinanderier Jean Durand (1894–1977), where he worked under the direction of Francesco Zambon. His three-month stay in the workshop was, if brief, decisive for the development of his appreciation for the medium of metal. During his time in Paris he often visited the Louvre , where he discovered ancient Greek ceramics.

In 1920 he returned to Lyon and set up his own workshop there. From 1921 to the Second World War , Linossier showed his work at the annual Paris salons of the Société nationale des beaux-arts and the Société des Artistes Décorateurs as well as the Société du Salon d'Automne . Here he met his future wife Hélène, who was a painter.

In 1924 Linossier exhibited one of his vases at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Décorateurs in Paris, where it was purchased by Florence Blumenthal (1873–1930), the wife of George Blumenthal (1858–1941), director of the Paris investment bank Lazard Frères and later curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . In 1919 the Blumenthals, who were important sponsors of French designers and artists of Art Deco , founded the Fondation Américaine pour l'Art et la Pensée Française , from which Linossier had received a grant in 1922.

He belonged to the artist group L'Evolution , founded by the éditeur d'art and sculptor Arthur Goldscheider in the early 1920s with representatives of Art Deco , whose work Goldscheider exhibited in 1925 at the Paris Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern . Linossier also belonged to the artist group Les Artisans français contemporains , together with Émile Decœur, Émile Lenoble, François-Émile Décorchemont and Maurice André Daurat. In 1937 he showed his work at the World Exhibition in Paris , where he was awarded the Grand Prix .

A year before his death, Linossier lost his wife Hélène. With the Hélène Linossier scholarship, which he launched on June 23, 1953, three students of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon were honored annually . Claudius Linossier died on October 8, 1953.

plant

From the beginning of his artistic activity, Linossier limited his repertoire of materials and techniques. He specialized mainly in the abstract, geometric and archaic-figurative decoration of his works, for which he preferred copper, although he also used brass, silver, nickel silver and other alloys. He liked to experiment with hammering and patination techniques as well as with inlays in order to achieve a variety of surface and color effects. In contrast to other Dinandiers, he did not enamel or varnish his pieces, but only used acid and fire to implement his unmistakable patinations. He made vessels such as vases, bowls and plates, although he did not conceptualize his work appropriately. Each of his works was unique. Some critics criticized the narrow spectrum of his artistic expression, others saw it as his persistent pursuit of perfection.

Honors

Claudius Linossier was accepted as a knight in the French Legion of Honor .

Museums

The collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lyon) contains numerous Linossier works. In 1979 the museum dedicated an exhibition to him on the 25th anniversary of his death. Since 1992 the museum has shown his works in an exhibition dedicated to Art Déco.

reception

Art expert Alastair Duncan called Linossier "a master of the art of Dinanderie ".

The contemporary art critic Yvanhoé Rambosson wrote in Mobilier et Decoration in 1933 : “Claudius Linossier seems to me like a patient Byzantine artist who has been reborn among us. His works offer the overwhelming splendor of the decor of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul or St. Mark 's Square in Venice. Their surfaces seem to shimmer like the fire of melting metals . "

Web links

Commons : Claudius Linossier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Claudius Linossier (1893–1953). In: docantic.com
  2. ↑ a b Jared Goss : French Art Deco . Metropolitan Museum of Art , 2014, ISBN 0-30020-430-2 , p. 144.
  3. ↑ vase, Claudius Linossier (French, Lyons 1893-1953 Paris) . In: Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. ^ Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.
  5. ↑ Bulletin des musées et monuments lyonnais , Vol. 11–12. Association des Amis du Musée de Lyon, 1990, pp. 75ff.
  6. ↑ a b Alastair Duncan : The Encyclopedia of Art Deco . Knickerbocker Press, 1998, ISBN 1-57715-046-5 , p. 144. Original text: “Claudius Linossier appears to me as a patient Byzantine artist reincarnated amongst us. His works offer the abundant magnificence of the decor of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul or St. Marks in Venice. Their surfaces seem to shimmer with fire, with the ferment of metal in fusion. "
personal data
SURNAME Linossier, Claudius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Dinanderier
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon , France
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1953
Place of death Lyon , France