Gert Louis Lamartine

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Gert Louis Lamartine (born July 20, 1898 in Uiffingen , † January 9, 1966 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter , sculptor and interior designer .

Life

Gert Louis Lamartine, born under the name Gerhard Ludwig Gustav Lamerdin , was the son of Gustav Lamerdin and Bertha geb. Müller, and was related to Alphonse de Lamartine . He studied painting at the University of Heidelberg and at the Karlsruhe Art Academy .

In 1923 he emigrated to Canada and set up an interior decoration studio in Île Sainte-Hélène in Montreal , from where he worked for more than forty years. Under his direction, his company decorated numerous houses in the Montreal district as well as the famous hotels Château Frontenac in Quebec City , Château Laurier in Ottawa , Château Lake Louise in Banff (Alberta) and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.

His paintings are impressionistic and abstract. He painted portraits, figure studies, capes and still lifes and chose his subjects from many countries he has traveled to ( Japan , China , the Caribbean , Portugal , Spain and others). His work has been exhibited in various locations, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1959 and the Toit de Chaume gallery in Piedmont, Québec outside Montreal in 1964 . He also made mosaics and sculptures.

literature

  • Colin S. MacDonald: Dictionary of Canadian Artists , Volume 3, 1991, pp. 719. ISBN 978-0919554207
  • Evelyn de Rostaing McMann: Biographical Index of Artists in Canada , 2002, p. 128. ISBN 978-0802027900
  • Evelyn de Rostaing McMann: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, formerly Art Association of Montreal: Spring Exhibitions, 1880–1970 , 1988, p. 351
  • Sylvie Roy, Cyndie Campbell: Artistes Au Canada: Une List Collective Des Dossiers D'artistes , 1999
  • General artist lexicon, bio-bibliographical index , 2000, p. 28. ISBN 978-3-598-23910-6 }

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See obituary in The Gazette , Saturday January 22, 1966, p. 46 ( online ). In the literature, 1965 is also found as the year of death.
  2. ^ Ancestry.com: Germany, Geburten und Taufen, 1558–1898 [online database]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014
  3. ↑ a b newspaper Le bien public , June 15, 1939, p. 9 online
  4. ^ Ancestry.com: US, Index to Alien Arrivals at Canadian Atlantic and Pacific Seaports, 1904-1944 [online database]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015
  5. ↑ See also Ecole du Meuble, 1930–1950: la décoration intérieure et les arts décoratifs à Montréal , 1989, same text on p. 88 in French and on p. 91 in English
  6. ↑ See Galery XII in The Gazette , Saturday December 26, 1959, p. 23 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Lamartine, Gert Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lamerdin, Gerhard Ludwig Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and interior decorator
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Uiffingen
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1966
Place of death Stuttgart