Félix Gaudin
Félix Gaudin (born February 10, 1851 in Paris , † September 15, 1930 in Châtenoy-le-Royal ) was a French glass painter and mosaic artist .
Clermont-Ferrand
Félix Gaudin was doing military service in Clermont-Ferrand in 1877 and when he received a major inheritance in August 1879, he bought the stained glass by Émile Thibault (55, cours Sablon), which had 12 employees. Under his leadership, the company soon became the largest stained glass factory in Clermont-Ferrand. He published advertisements with pictures, brand new at the time, and participated in many domestic and foreign exhibitions. In Clermont-Ferrand, his workshop created many of the windows of the Notre-Dame-du-Port church and the mosaics in the mausoleum for Abbé Géraud Cluzel in the Saint-Joseph church. He also created windows in the south chapel of the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption cathedral .
Paris
In 1890 Félix Gaudin bought a company with six employees in Paris and in 1892 decided to settle entirely in Paris and sell the company in Clermont. In Paris he received orders almost exclusively from private individuals, for whose houses he made stained glass windows in the style of Art Nouveau . His windows in the churches of Saint-Honoré d'Eylau (in the 16th arrondissement of Paris) and Notre-Dame de la Gare (in the 13th arrondissement , these windows were removed in 1965) were his only works in Paris churches.
At the World Exhibition of 1900 in Paris he received several awards and today you can still see his windows in North and South America, e.g. B. at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires .
His son Jean Gaudin took over the studio in 1909.
Stained glass window Saint-Honoré d'Eylau
Félix Gaudin received the order for the windows of the church built in 1897 through the architect of the church Paul Marbeau . The cardboard boxes for the first windows with motifs of the Archangel Michael and Joan of Arc were made by Eugène Grasset , for four more windows his student Augusto Giacometti created the templates. For the rest of the 92 leaded glass windows, Raphaël Freida created the cardboard boxes. Of these 92, 48 are historicizing windows that tell of saints.
literature
- Saint-Honoré d'Eylau. Les saints des vitraux. Published by the parish of Saint-Honoré d'Eylau, Paris 2005 (41 pages, without ISBN)
- Jean-François Luneau: Félix Gaudin - peintre-verrier et mosaïste 1851-1930 . Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand 2006, ISBN 2845162847 (not evaluated)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaudin, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French glass painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1930 |
| Place of death | Châtenoy-le-Royal |