Fernande Olivier
Fernande Olivier (born June 6, 1881 in Paris as Amélie Lang; † January 29, 1966 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was Pablo Picasso's first partner and muse from 1905 to 1912.
origin
Fernande was born as Amélie Lang, illegitimate daughter of Clara Lang and grew up in the Bellevallée family of plasterers , who made flowers, feathers and other fashionable items. At seventeen she had a son from a salesman named Paul-Emile Percheron, and the couple married when the child was five months old. After the father and son disappeared without a trace, Fernande married the sculptor Gaston de Labaume, through whom she was moved from her petty-bourgeois background to the Parisian artistic milieu. She worked as a model and around 1900 adopted the stage name "Fernande Olivier".
Meaning for Picasso
On August 4, 1904, Olivier met Picasso in the Bateau-Lavoir studio house and became his model and his first steady partner. At the same time in 1904 Picasso made the acquaintance of Guillaume Apollinaire and Kees van Dongen in the Bateau-Lavoir . Picasso depicted Fernande in numerous works from his Cubist period between 1904 and 1909. One example is the bronze sculpture Head of a Woman ( Fernande ) from 1909 in the MoMA collection . A painting and, like the bronze, a work of analytical cubism from 1909 is in the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt . Fernande conducted a lively correspondence with Gertrude Stein , Alice B. Toklas and Apollinaire. After separating from Picasso in 1912, she continued to work as a nude model and later became a teacher. In 1933 Fernande Olivier published her first memoir about her time with Picasso, the second part appeared posthumously.
Paul Léautaud reported on Fernande Olivier in his journal .
More examples of Picasso pictures with FO
- Fernande à la mantille noir , 1905
- Nu couchée (Fernande) , 1906
- Fernande à la mantille , 1906
- Portrait de Fernande , 1906
- Portrait de Fernande Olivier au foulard , 1906
literature
- Fernande Olivier: Picasso and his friends. Memories from the years 1905–1913 . Diogenes Verlag, new edition 1989, ISBN 978-3-257-21748-3 . The French original edition appeared in 1933.
Secondary literature
- Gertraude Clemenz-Kirsch: The women of Picasso. edition ebersbach, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86915-062-8
- Ingrid Mössinger, Kerstin Dechsel, Beate Ritter: Picasso et les femmes - Picasso and women . Dumont, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-8321-7529-0
- Antonina Vallentín: Pablo Picasso, Hommes et faits de l'histoire , Club des Editeurs, 1957, pp. 97 ff
- Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie : Pablo - Complete Edition , translated from the French by Claudia Sandberg. Hand lettering by Dirk Rehm. Reprodukt, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95640163-3 - ( Graphic Novel ). 352 pp.
Web links
- Portraits of Picasso by Olivier
- Picasso's women. Play
- Overview with photos and paintings of Picasso's women
- How Pablo Picasso's Wives and Mistresses Inspired His Art
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pablo Picasso. Woman's Head (Fernande). Paris, fall 1909 | MoMA. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Portrait of Fernande Olivier. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Olivier, Fernande |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Life partner and model of Picasso (1905–1912) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1966 |
| Place of death | Neuilly-sur-Seine |