Fernand Guignier

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Fernand Guignier (* 1902 in Montpellier , † 1980 in Nantes ) was a French painter and sculptor , who was also known under the names Fernand Gaston Guignier and Fernand-Charles Guignier .

Life

Fernand Guignier was a student of the sculptors Emil Derré and Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris . Between 1926 and 1960 he took part in the Salon des Artistes Français in the Palais de Tokyo sixteen times . In the sculpture category he exhibited numerous busts and statues. In 1938 he took part with the plaster statue Rêverie , which depicts a seated child, and in 1943 again showed a saint figure that is closely linked to the history of Paris: the figure of St. Genoveva . Then in 1946 the torso of an athlete and in 1947 the plaster statue Naïade .

As an artist, he was very attached to the Montmartre district of Paris . He made a sculpture of St. Dionysius (French: St-Denis) for a fountain in Square Suzanne-Buisson , who was the first bishop of Paris to be beheaded on a hill around the year 250 (“I'd rather give my head before I am unfaithful to my faith ”). Since then it has been called the "Mountain of Martyrs" (Montmartre). According to legend, he is said to have walked with his head in hand to his present grave in St-Denis. Guignier places the saint there as if he were leaning on his hands in a thoughtful pose. From a side angle you can see that he is holding his severed head in both hands.

As a painter, too, Guigner remained loyal to Paris and the Montmartre district. Numerous oil paintings, sketches and watercolors show the area around the quarter as well as other popular areas of downtown Paris such as Notre Dame Cathedral , Place de la Concorde and Île de la Cité .

Work

  • Fountain sculpture Saint Denis in the Suzanne Buisson Square in Paris, 1941.
  • Plaster statue of Rêverie , Salon des artistes français, 1938.
  • Plaster statue Naïade , Salon des artistes français, 1947.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About St. Dionysius: Franciscan Monastery Vierzehnheiligen about Dionysius ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . As of November 2, 2009.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vierzehnheiligen.de
  2. ^ Marie-Hélène Levadé: Les fontaines de Paris: l'eau pour le plaisir. Edition chapitre douze, Bruxelles / Paris 2006, ISBN 2-915345-05-8 , p. 493; Jacques Lebar: Le guide du promeneur: 18e arrondissement Parigramme, 2001, Pennsylvania State University, p. 124.
personal data
SURNAME Guignier, Fernand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guignier, Fernand Gaston; Guignier, Fernand-Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier
DATE OF DEATH 1980
Place of death Nantes