Georges Halbout du Tanney

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Georges Halbout du Tanney (born December 15, 1895 in Paris , † June 7, 1986 in Bourdeilles ) was a French sculptor .

Life

Georges Halbout du Tanney was the son of Ernest Halbout, a jeweler from the Buttes-Chaumont district of Paris . He attended the Germain Pilon School , which was later renamed École des arts appliqués à l'industrie (School of Industrially Applied Arts) and then École des Arts Décoratifs (School of Applied Arts) .

During the First World War he was taken prisoner as a civilian, where he painted portraits of his fellow prisoners. After his release he was placed under house arrest in Switzerland in 1916. In 1918 he joined the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris as an interpreter for the American army . He spent six years in the studio of the sculptor Jean Boucher at Parc Montsouris , where he shared a studio with the sculptor Paul Belmondo .

In 1920, Georges Halbout du Tanney won the Prix ​​Blumenthal . In 1924 he took part in the Summer Olympics with four works . He belonged to the artist group La Stèle , founded by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) Arthur Goldscheider in the early 1920s with representatives of Art Deco , whose work Goldscheider exhibited in 1925 at the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern .

In 1928 he won the Prix ​​Abd-el-Tif , which opened the way to Algeria for him. Here he settled in Bouzareah , a suburb of Algiers , and taught at the École nationale des beaux-Arts d'Alger . In 1934 he married his student Gisèle de Lalaurencie in Bourdeilles , who was his model in Algiers . He ran a workshop in Chellala ( Hammam Maskhoutine ), in eastern Algeria. In 1937 he received the state commission for the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc in Algiers.

On the world exhibition Paris 1937 Georges Halbout you Tanney was a silver medal and at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français awarded in 1938 with a gold medal. The sculptor taught anatomy at the École supérieure des arts appliqués and at the École des beaux-arts in Caen . In 1949 he received the title of Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and in 1950 was accepted as a knight in the Legion of Honor . In 1966 he settled in Bourdeilles (Périgord). In January 1982 the city of Paris awarded him the Médaille de Vermeil (Vermeil Medal).

Georges Halbout du Tanney was the father of the author Dominique Halbout du Tanney .

Works (selection)

The equestrian statue of Joan of Arc was first erected in Algiers in 1939 and after Algeria's independence was transferred to Vaucouleurs in Lorraine

Many of his works are in the Art Deco style and executed in bronze or terracotta.

  • Buste de sénégalais , 1939
  • Danseuse
  • Tete de jeune maure , 1933
  • Jeune femme nue souriante
  • La preparation du couscous , 1931
  • Jeune orientale lavant du linge , 1931
  • Marocaine filant , 1930
  • Buste de jeune fille , 1930
  • Tete de bacchante

literature

  • Stéphane Richemond, Denise Grouard: Les orientalistes: dictionnaire des sculpteurs, XIXe – XXe siècles. Entry HALBOUT DU TANNEY Georges , Les Éditions de l'Amateur, 2008, ISBN 2-85917-484-2 .
  • Stéphane Richemond: Les salons des artistes coloniaux: suivi d'un dictionnaire des sculpteurs. Les Éditions de l'Amateur, 2003, p. 125.
  • Elisabeth Cazenave: Les artistes de l'Algérie: dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, 1830–1962. Bernard Giovanangeli, 2001, ISBN 2-909034-27-5 , pp. 100, 272.
  • Georges Halbout, sculpteur (1895–1986) , catalog of the retrospective of the Brantôme Abbey, July 1991.

Web links

Commons : Georges Halbout  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georges Halbout. Full name: Georges Halbout du Tanne. In: sports-reference.com
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ↑ Georges Halbout du Tanney (1895–1986) Tête de jeune mauresque Sculpture en marbre blanc. In: invaluable.com
personal data
SURNAME Halbout du Tanney, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halbout, Georges (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1986
Place of death Bourdeilles