Fernand Mourlot

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Fernand Mourlot, 1950

Fernand Mourlot (born April 5, 1895 in Paris ; † December 4, 1988 ) was the artistic director of the Parisian printing company Mourlot Frères , which was known for producing excellent lithographs . As a publisher , he published artist books by writers and artists of the modern age under the name Fernand Mourlot Éditeur .

Live and act

The Mourlot printing company, founded in Paris in 1852, began producing exclusive wallpapers. In 1914 Jules Mourlot (company name Imprimerie J. Mourlot ) expanded production and acquired additional rooms in the 10th arrondissement at 18 rue Chabrol. One of his children, Fernand Mourlot, studied painting at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs and worked, interrupted by his participation as a soldier in the First World War , in the father's printing house.

In 1921, after the father's death, the printing company was called Mourlot Frères . The eldest son, Georges, took care of the finances, Fernand was artistic director, a third son, Maurice, a painter, later joined.

Mourlot Frères received orders for the production of exhibition posters for French museums, for example in 1930 for the retrospective of Eugène Delacroix in the Louvre , in 1932 for an exhibition by Édouard Manets in the Musée de l'Orangerie and in 1934 for Honoré Daumier's work in the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

Artists who visited Mourlot's workshop to collaborate in the lithographic field included modern artists such as Georges Braque , Alexander Calder , Marc Chagall , Jean Dubuffet , Jean Fautrier , Giovanni Giacometti , Henri Matisse , Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso .

From 1937 Mourlot printed Verve for the publisher Tériade . From November 1945, after his first lithographs from 1919 to 1930, Picasso again turned to this technique in Mourlot's workshop; for example, Tête de femme , Les deux femmes nues and Le Taureau were created . By 1969, Picasso had produced almost 400 lithographs in collaboration with Mourlot, including the famous dove of peace .

The original graphics published in Aimé Maeght's art magazine Derrière le miroir (1946–1982) were largely printed by Mourlot.

The Fernand Mourlot Éditeur publishing house began producing artist books with texts by French writers, illustrated with lithographs by well-known artists.

In 1960 Mourlot moved to rue Barrault. The last Parisian studio was located at 49 rue du Montparnasse from 1976 and was continued by his son Jacques until 1997 after Mourlot's death in 1988. The name was changed and, as the Idem Paris printing company , it continues to print artistic lithographs to the present day.

In 1967 Mourlot opened a branch in New York City and worked with contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg , Francis Bacon , Roy Lichtenstein , Alexander Calder , Ellsworth Kelly , Alex Katz and Claes Oldenburg . Mourlot's grandson Eric Mourlot displays a large collection of prints in the Mourlot Gallery at 16 East 79th Street in New York. In Germany, the Kunsthalle Bremen owns 80 copies as a gift from the art historian and art collector Hans-Herman Rief .

In 1979 Fernand Mourlot published his autobiography Gravés dans ma mémoire , in which he described his life as a printer and the meetings with the artists. In Paris, Place Fernand Mourlot in the Montparnasse district in the 14th arrondissement is a reminder of the printer and publisher.

Fernand Mourlot Éditeur (selection)

  • Matière et Mémoire ou les lithographes à l'école . Text by Francis Ponge , lithographs by Jean Dubuffet, 1944.
  • Quelques mots rassemblés pour Monsieur Dubuffet . Text by Paul Éluard , lithographs by Jean Dubuffet, 1944.
  • Vache bleue in une ville . Text by André Frénaud , lithographs by Jean Dubuffet, 1944.
  • Braque le Patron . Text by Jean Paulhan , lithographs by Georges Braque, 1945.
  • Echoes . Texts by Jacques Prévert , André Verdet , Nazim Hikmet , lithographs by Henri Matisse, 1952.
  • In l'atelier de Picasso . Text by Jaime Sabartés , lithographs by Picasso, 1957.
  • Une fête en Cimmérie . Text by Georges Duthuit , lithographs by de Henri Matisse, 1964.
  • Bouquet de rêves for Neila . Text by Yvan Goll , lithographs by Joan Miro, 1967.
  • Poésies antillaises . Poems by John-Antoine Nau , lithographs by Henri Matisse, 1972.
  • Portfolio du centenaire de l'Imprimerie Mourlot , with lithographs by Picasso, Chagall, Miró, Matisse, Léger, Brianchon, Clairin, Marini, Minaux, Dufy, Masson, Braque, 1952.
  • Portfolio d'affiches . Seven albums with posters, released between 1953 and 1963.

Publications

By Fernand Mourlot
  • Picasso lithographs . Four volumes, published between 1949 and 1964 by Éditions André Sauret, Monte Carlo.
    • Picasso lithographer . Translated from the French by Eric Weiser. Andre Sauret, Paris 1970.
  • Les affiches originales des maîtres de l'école de Paris . Editions André Sauret, Monte Carlo 1959.
    • Art in the Paris School poster: original posters by Braque, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Picasso . Editions André Sauret, Monte Carlo 1959, DNB 730165450
  • Souvenirs et portraits d'artistes . Alain Mazo, Paris and Léon Amiel, New York 1972.
  • Gravés dans ma mémoire . Robert Laffont, Paris 1979.
About Fernand Mourlot
  • À même la pierre, Fernand Mourlot Lithographe . Pierre Bordas & Fils éditeurs, Paris 1982.
  • Cinquante années de lithography . Pierre Bordas & Fils éditeurs, Paris 1983.
  • "L'Atelier Mourlot" by Marco J. Bodenstein (contemporary witness report from a local expert). (Ed.) Theo Kautzmann. Published by Südliche Weinstraße eV / Roth Kunst-Verlag, Landau / Pfalz, 1996.
  • Picasso lithographer and activist , Miguel Orozco, Academia.edu, 2018
  • Picasso litógrafo y militante , Miguel Orozco, Fundación Picasso . Málaga, 2016

Web links

Commons : Fernand Mourlot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fig. Of the National Gallery of Australia
  2. ↑ Fernand Mourlot , frjb.free.fr, accessed February 14, 2014
  3. ↑ Derrière le Miroir , grafikbrief.de, accessed on March 20, 2014
  4. ^ L'Imprimerie d'Art de Montparnasse ( Memento of August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), idemparis.com, accessed on July 31, 2014
  5. ↑ Fernand Mourlot, lithographe , mourlot.com, accessed February 13, 2014
  6. ↑ Quoted after the web link Galerie Mourlot
  7. ↑ Picasso, Matisse, Chagall et al. a. - Artist posters from the Mourlot workshop ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), kunsthalle-bremen.de, accessed on February 18, 2014
  8. ↑ Images of the posters ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mourlot, Fernand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1988