Francisco Durrio de Madrón

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The guitarist , portrait of Paco Durrio by Paul Gauguin , around 1900

Francisco Durrio de Madrón , known under the name Paco Durrio , (born May 22, 1868 in Valladolid , Spain, † August 30, 1940 in Paris , France) was a Spanish sculptor , ceramist and goldsmith of French descent. His work can be assigned to symbolism and represents the Spanish Art Nouveau, modernism .

life and work

Durrio's father was of French descent and took the surname Durrieu de Madron. After moving to Spain, he changed it to Durrio. Paco Durrio received an artistic training in Bilbao until 1881 and then went to Madrid , where he worked with the sculptor Justo Gandarias . In 1888, like many Spanish artists of his generation, he moved to Paris, where he joined an artist group led by Paul Gauguin . The friendship with him influenced his ceramic work, which was created during this time. He shared a studio with Gauguin for a few weeks between 1893 and 1895 at 8 rue de la Grande Chaumière.

Monumento a Arriaga , 1905–1933, Museo de Bellas Artes , Bilbao

A first exhibition took place in 1896, in 1900 he took part in the Exposition d'Art Moderne de Bilbao . In 1901 he moved into a studio in the Bateau-Lavoir on Montmartre , which he left to Pablo Picasso in 1904 . From 1904, near this studio, he had a house built in Impasse Girardon, in which there was a round ceramic kiln that he had developed. He lived here until 1939. Picasso, who had been introduced to ceramic technology by Durrio, had his first works burned by Durrio in 1905.

From 1905, after winning a competition, Durrio created a monument for the musician Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga in Bilbao, a sculpture that does not show the honored person, but the muse Melpomene (Spanish: Melpómene) with a lyre . Possibly because of this novelty or because of the unusual depiction of the naked figure, it was not installed until 1933.

Durrio was highly valued by the art critics Mailler, Apollinaire and Charles Morice, especially for his ceramic work. Due to his personal connections, he owned an exceptional art collection of paintings by his contemporaries, mainly works by Gauguin.

Durrio died impoverished and almost forgotten in 1940 in a Paris hospital. In 1945 the Salon d'Automne showed a retrospective of his work. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London exhibited a large selection of his jewelry designs in 1961 on the occasion of the International Exhibition of Modern Jewelery, 1890–1961 . In 2013, the Museo de Bellas Artes , Bilbao, organized a retrospective entitled Francisco Durrio (1868–1940). Sobre las huellas de Gauguin , which also featured works from his art collection.

Works by Durrio are, for example, in the collections of the Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, and in the Musée d'Orsay , Paris.

literature

  • Kosme de Barañano, Tomás Llorens: Francisco Durrio y Julio González . Orfebrería en el cambio de siglo (Colecciones del MNCARS). Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 1997, ISBN 84-8026-077-7
  • Maria Amezaga Massalleras: Paco Durrio: viviendo en París (Bilbainos Recuperados series). Muelle De Uribitarte Editores, Bilbao 2013, ISBN 978-84-939946-6-2
  • Javier González de Durana, Miriam Alzuri, María Amezaga: Francisco Durrio (1868–1940). Sobre las huellas de Gauguin , exhibition catalog. Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao 2013, ISBN 978-84-96763-43-2

Web links

Commons : Francisco Durrio de Madrón  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Collection: Francisco Durrio , museobilbao.com, accessed August 29, 2014
  2. Paco: El mejor amigo de otros artistas ( Memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), modernismo98y14.com, accessed on August 28, 2014
  3. ^ Julio González, collection du Musée national d'art moderne , ed. by Brigitte Léal. Éditions Musée National d'Art Moderne , 2007, ISBN 978-2-84426-323-0 , pp. 78–79
  4. Harald Theil: picture and vessel. Studies on Pablo Picasso's ceramics , dissertation 2007, pp. 53, 56 ff.
  5. Melpomene ( memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), bilbaoescultural.net, accessed on August 29, 2014
  6. Paco: El mejor amigo de otros artistas ( Memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), modernismo98y14.com, accessed on August 28, 2014
  7. ^ Francisco Durrio (1868-1940). Sobre las huellas de Gauguin , museobilbao.com, accessed August 30, 2014
  8. ^ Mariano Gómez de Caso Estrada: Paco Durrio: Un maqueto en Bilbao. Euskonews , Date: 14/21. November 2003. Retrieved August 28, 2014.