Georges Henri Pissarro

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Portrait of Georges Henri Pissarro by his father Camille Pissarro (1880)

Georges Henri Pissarro , also Georges Manzana or Manzana – Pissarro , (* 1871 in Louveciennes , France , † 1961 ) was a French lithographer and painter of impressionism and neo-impressionism . In addition to his pictures, he designed textiles, decorative objects, furniture and glass objects. He came from the artist family Pissarro .

family

Georges Henri Pissarro was the second son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julia Vellay. His siblings were Lucien , Jeanne, Félix , Ludovic Rodolphe , Jeanne (Cocotte) and Paul Émile . He was married and widowed three times. With Esther Isaacson he fathered the son Tommy, with Amicie Brécy two children Camille and Marthe, and with Blanche Moriset three children Flore, Aziza and Felix.

life and work

At first he painted at his father's side, in whose house he grew up with his brother Lucien Pissarro , who was often visited by aspiring impressionist artists such as Claude Monet , Paul Cézanne , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Gauguin . As a young man he painted a number of landscapes around Pontoise and Éragny in the Impressionist style inherited from his father. From around 1906, Georges Henri Pissarro dealt with the design of objects of decorative art and furniture. Influenced by Gauguin's exotic native scenes from Tahiti and Martinique , he approached orientalism in his works , in which he experimented with gold, silver and copper paint.

From 1894 the artist chose the pseudonym Manzana ( Spanish apple ), inspired by the name of his grandmother Rachel Manzano-Pomié , as a signature for his pictures. From 1906 he signed with Manzana-Pissarro .

At the beginning of the 20th century, Pissarro regularly showed his neo-impressionist works in the Salon d'Automne , in the Salon des Indépendants of the Société des Artistes Indépendants , and in the Paris galleries Ruel and Druet . In 1907 he exhibited his decorative work for the first time at Ambroise Vollard . One of his largest exhibitions took place in 1914 at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris , where he showed 311 of his works, including carpets, furniture, glassware, decorative painting, etchings and lithographs. The artist continued to regularly present his works at exhibitions until the late 1930s. He lived in Les Andelys and Paris, and spent several summers in Pont-Aven in Brittany , where he made a series of paintings in the 1930s that were inspired by the local costume and life in the area. At the beginning of the Second World War , he moved with his family to Casablanca in 1939 , where he lived until 1947. The painter spent the last years of his life with his youngest son Félix in Menton , where he returned to his neo-impressionist roots and landscape painting.

literature

  • Pissarro, Georges . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 110 .
  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous. Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 978-2-7000-0157-0 , p. 166 (French).
  • Claude Aguttes: Succession Georges Manzana-Pissarro, partie d'atelier, tableaux des 19 et 20e siècles. Édition D. Coissard, Paris 2005 (French).
  • Georges Manzana Pissarro. Catalogs. Stern Gallery & Paris, Galerie Privarte, London November – December 2001, 72 pp. (English).
  • Georges Manzana Pissarro. Arabian Nights. Catalog, Stern Gallery & Paris ( issuu.com ).

Web links

Commons : Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Georges Manzana Pissarro est le troisième enfant de Camille Pissarro. En 1894 il prend le nom de sa grand-mère paternelle, Manzana. lagravure.com (French)
  • Stern-Pissarro-Gallery: Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871–1961). pissarro.net (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stern-Pissarro-Gallery: Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871–1961). (English, pissarro.art ).
  2. ↑ Stern Pissarro Gallery: Pissarro Family. (English, pissarro.art ).
  3. ↑ a b c Jim Lane: Georges Manzana Pissarro. (English, humanitiesweb.org, March 9, 2001).
  4. ^ Jacquelynn Baas, Richard S. Field: The artistic revival of the woodcut in France 1850-1900. University of Michigan Museum of Art , Yale University Art Gallery , Baltimore Museum of Art , 1984, ISBN 0-912303-29-8 , pp. 103 and 143, (English, books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Pissarro, Georges Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manzana, Georges; Manzana – Pissarro, Georges Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French impressionism and neo-impressionism painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Louveciennes , France
DATE OF DEATH 1961