François Popineau
François Émile Popineau (born October 2, 1887 in Saint-Amand-Montrond , France , † March 29, 1951 in Paris , France) was a French sculptor .
Life
Popineau spent his childhood and youth in the Boischaut region , where he turned to art at a young age. He studied art in Paris and worked there as a sculptor. Soon afterwards he took part in the First World War. After his return he resumed his work as a sculptor and also taught at the École des Beaux-Arts on Place Cujas in Bourges , and later also in Rouen .
François Popineau exhibited his work at the salons of the Société nationale des beaux-arts , Société du Salon d'Automne , Société des Artistes Indépendants and the Salon des Tuileries . In 1924 the Conseil Supérieur des Beaux Arts granted him a travel grant. At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels moderne , he won a gold medal in 1925. In 1927 he received the Prix Puvis de Chavannes awarded by the Société nationale des beaux-arts for his statue La Baigneuse ( German Die Badende ).
Popineau made war memorials and statues for public parks in the style of neoclassicism , especially for the city of Bourges. In 1945 he created a monument there in memory of the French resistance movement during the Second World War .
Popineau belonged to the artist group La Stèle , founded by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) Arthur Goldscheider in the 1920s . His works in this group are attributed to Art Deco .
Works (selection)
- La femme à la carpe from 1948, Jardin des Prés-Fichaux, Bourges
- Diane Surprise , Musée du Berry, Bourges
- Fresco at the Maison de la Culture , Bourges
- Monument aux morts de la Grande Guerre , Place Verdun, Bourges
- La France rompant ses chaînes , Place du 8 May 45, Bourges
- La Bacchante , Bagneres-de-Bigorre
- La Jouvence , Bagneres -de-Bigorre
- Femme à la coupe
- Bust of the sculptor Jean Baffier
- Buste de femme
- Messaouda
- Eve
literature
- POPINEAU, François Émile (born 1887). Sculptor. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.
- Jean-René Gaborit et al .: Sculpture Française II - Renaissance et Temps Modernes . Paris 1998.
- Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker : General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1907–1950.
Web links
- Roland Narboux: François Emile Popineau. Sculpteur de Bourges . In: encyclopedie.bourges.net .
Individual evidence
- ↑ La maison de la culture - Bourges, France. In: waymarking.com .
- ↑ Roland Narboux: François Emile Popineau, Sculpteur de Bourges . In: encyclopedie.bourges.net .
- ^ Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.
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SURNAME | Popineau, François |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Popineau, François Émile (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1887 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Amand-Montrond , France |
DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1951 |
Place of death | Paris , France |