Georges Gimel

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Georges Gimel (born March 8, 1898 in Domène , Isère department ; † January 21, 1962 in Megève , Haute-Savoie department ) was a French painter who painted portraits , landscapes , mountain landscapes, still lifes and flowers. At the same time he worked as an engraver , lithographer , illustrator , theater painter , sculptor and enamel painter.

Life

Georges Gimel was born in Domène, a small village in the French Alps. His ancestors, who came from Gimel , a place in the Corrèze department , emigrated to the Dauphiné during the religious wars. It was probably the encounter with the painter Tancrède Bastet, who also came from Domène, that aroused Gimel's interest in becoming a painter as well.

education

After spending a year at the “École des Arts Industriel” in Grenoble , Gimel left his home in the Dauphiné and moved to Paris, where he stayed for twenty years. He became a student at the “ École des Beaux-Arts ” in the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens , where, among other things, he designed the sketches of the cloisters he would later realize. In 1916 Gimel also enrolled in the “École des Arts Décoratifs” to improve his technique.

At the end of 1916, he volunteered during the First World War and went to the front on the Marne. There he drew his first war visions. A week before the armistice, he was the victim of a gas attack, which proved to be detrimental to his health, but at the same time gave him tremendous creativity. After demobilization, Gimel returned in 1919 to the “École des Beaux-Arts”, now in Jean-Antoine Injalbert's studio , and became a student at the Académie Julian . He also worked with his war comrade, the sculptor Henri-Louis Bouchard . His first wood carvings and sculptures date from this time.

Act

During the 1920s and 1930s, Gimel also took part in Parisian artistic life. He met writers, actors, musicians and fashion designers. His portraits of Colette , Eve Curie , Louis Jouvet and Alfred Cortot, among others , date from this period . Gimel became a member of the Salon des Indépendants "Société des Artistes Indépendants" and exhibited several times in the " Salon d´Automne ", for which he completed the largest painting of the salon in 1927: "La cueillette des amandes" . His artistic versatility was also expressed through the illustration of several books. He also worked with Jean de Brunhoff , the creator of Babar the Elephant . He designed glass models for the Verreries Lalique . Furthermore, his designs for clothing fabrics were very popular with the fashion czars Paul Poiret and Jean Patou .

In 1934 Gimel exhibited his "Art Sacré" in the "Galerie Charpentier". His lithographic Stations of the Cross with a foreword by Léon Daudet were bought by the Vatican and the Bibliothèque Nationale. Gimel had to leave Paris for health reasons. He had the architect Henri-Jacques le Mème build the chalet “La Fresque” in Megève (Haute Savoie). The large facade paintings by Gimel with little dressed people “Le roi et la reine des neiges” caused a lot of talk. In 1937 Gimel took part in the World Exhibition in Paris. He made several paintings with winter sports motifs for the pavilion of the Dauphiné department.

Towards the end of the Second World War, his book "Le calvaire de la résistance" appeared in 1944 with visions of war. Some of these visions were shown as early as 1940 during an exhibition in the “Galerie Katia Granoff” in Paris. After that, Gimel concentrated exclusively on enamel painting. To do this, he built a huge stove in his chalet in Mégève and experimented to obtain the desired colors and effects. In 1949 91 of his works were exhibited in the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris. Through the mediation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several of his enamel paintings were sent to exhibitions abroad, including to Saarbrücken , Rome and the Yale University Art Gallery (USA).

In 1956 Gimel completed the enameled Stations of the Cross for the church in Megève. On January 21, 1962, Gimel died unexpectedly on the ice rink in Megève while waltzing with a young woman.

Facade paintings

  • 1930 La Carrière (The Quarry) for the main building of the “Compagnie des chaux et ciments”. Lafarge ”in Paris. (cannot be found).
  • 1935 Le roi et la reine des neiges (The Snow King and Queen) for the chalet: La Fresque, in Megève.
  • 1948 L'activité des travailleurs d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (Old and New Professions) 320 × 600, Bourse de Travail, in Annecy. (cannot be found).
  • 1952 Comédiens des années vingt (Twentieth Century Actors), Grenoble New Theater, Isère side. (In restoration).

Wood engraving illustrations

  • Dévigne, Roger (1921), Janot le jeune hommes aux ailes d'or . Paris: L'Encrier.
  • Coeuroy, André (1921), Musiciens . Paris: Nouvel Essor.
  • Faure, Gabriel (1922), Printemps . Paris: R.Chiberre.
  • Voragine, Jacques de (1922), Sainte Agnès . Paris: Nouvel Essor.
  • Hervieu, Louise (1924), l'Âme du cirque . Paris: Librairie de France.
  • Gimel, Georges and Petiot, Henry (1924), Stendhal . Chambéry: tentative things.
  • Gimel, Georges (1933), Chemin de Croix . Paris: Jeanne Bucher.
  • Gimel, Georges (1944), Le Calvaire de la Résistance . Grenoble: Didier et Richard.

literature

  • Hans Vollmer, General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the 20th Century, p.248
  • Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres ..., tV, p.7.
  • Edouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, 1910-1930.
  • François-Georges Marlin Gimel, Alain Warmé, (2005), Gimel 1898-1962. Annecy: Doc'Factory. ISBN 2-9524879-0-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.monsieur-biographie.com/celebrite/biographie/georges_gimel-7087.php

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personal data
SURNAME Gimel, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Domène , Isère
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1962
Place of death Megève