Emile Lenoble

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Emile Lenoble (born November 24, 1875 in Choisy-le-Roi , † August 14, 1940 in Morgat ) was a French ceramist .

Life

Emile Lenoble grew up in Choisy-le-Roi, where his parents ran a small industrial embroidery workshop. He attended the Lycée Jean-Baptiste-Say school ; at the age of 18 he began his studies at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. From 1897 he worked for seven years as a draftsman in the Faïencerie Loebnitz earthenware factory in Choisy-le-Roi with Hippolyte Boulenger, where he came into contact with the manufacture of earthenware and enamel. In 1904 he made the decision to become a ceramist and became a student of the sculptor and ceramist Ernest Chaplet in his workshop in Choisy-de-Roi. In 1899 he had married Chaplet's granddaughter. Up until 1909, the year Chaplet died, he made two types of ceramics, pieces decorated in the style of Greek art and, following Japanese tradition, works of enamel-coated earthenware. In contrast to Chaplet, who had worked with porcelain , Lenoble chose stoneware. Lenoble's vases and pots were made on a potter's wheel; he sometimes mixed the clay with kaolin . In December 1905 he had exhibited with Chaplet in the Georges Petit Gallery and received an order for a 500- piece Greek-style dinner service that the French art historian Salomon Reinach ordered from him for his Villa Kerylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer .

After Chaplet's death, Lenoble set up his own workshop in Choisy-le-Roi. Here he worked alone and developed his personal style in which the decorations of his pieces are inspired by Celtic and Middle Eastern art. From 1909 to 1914 he created works with clearer lines and a wide variety of colors. He developed inlay decorations on his bulbous pieces with wavy lines, spirals or plant ornaments, which he engraved in a thick layer of white engobe and then covered with a transparent layer. This period of his work was interrupted in 1914 by the First World War. During the war Lenoble was captured and interned in Geneva until the end of the conflict .

From 1918 to 1925, Lenoble's work was dominated by the influence of Asian ceramics. His friend, the painter and collector of oriental art Henri Rivière , had introduced him to Chinese ceramics from the Song period and Korean ceramics with their own special colors. He showed works from this period at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris. The following, last creative period of the artist was influenced by African art. From 1927, Lenoble gradually replaced the floral motifs of the 1920s with a sober repertoire of geometric motifs. He tried to reproduce the appearance of African wooden sculptures.

Emile Lenoble was friends with artists such as Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann , Pierre-Paul Montagnac , Georges Bastard and Félix Boutreux . The literature locates his early work in the Art Nouveau style and his later work in the Art Deco style . Examples of his work are now in the Musée d'Orsay , Musée des Arts Décoratifs , the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Emile Lenoble's son Jacques Lenoble also became a ceramist.

  • Vase from around 1920, Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)

  • Vase from 1925, MET

  • Vase from 1925, MET

  • Vase from 1937, Musée des Arts Décoratifs

literature

Web links

Commons : Emile Lenoble  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emile Lenoble. In: Musée d'Orsay
  2. ↑ Lenoble. In: Musée des Arts Décoratifs
  3. ↑ Emile Lenoble. In: Art Institute of Chicago
  4. ↑ Emile Lenoble French. In: Metropolitan Museum of Art
personal data
SURNAME Lenoble, Emile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Choisy-le-Roi
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1940
Place of death Morgat