Hélène Bertaux

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Hélène Bertaux. Photograph by Étienne Carjat 1864.

Joséphine Charlotte Hélène Bertaux (born July 4, 1825 in Paris , † April 20, 1909 in Saint-Michel-de-Chavaignes , Département Sarthe ) was a French sculptor and suffragette . Use them as a pseudonym Allelit . She later signed her sculptures with Madame Léon Bertaux .

Life

Hélène Bertaux was born in Paris on July 4, 1825 and was the student of her father, the sculptor Pierre Hébert and Augustin-Alexandre Dumont . Her brother was the sculptor Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert (* 1828; † 1893). In 1849 she made her debut with a portrait under the pseudonym Allelit. She was married to Léon Bertaux (* 1827).

In order to achieve the right of women to an artistic education, she founded the "Union des femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs" (Union of women painters and sculptors) in December 1881 and became its first chairman. She spoke out in favor of admitting women to the “Ecole des Beaux-Arts”. Her sculpture “Psyché sous l'empire du mystère” was exhibited at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 . In the “Journal des femmes artistes” she wrote on June 1, 1891: “The art of women […] is the natural consequence of the art of this alliance male-born something we do not yet know. [...] the birth of an art that bears the brand of genius of our sex: women stay, stay, artists, stay united ”.

She spent her last years in the Château de Lassay , ( Canton Lassay-les-Châteaux ). She died on April 20, 1909 in Saint-Michel-de-Chavaignes and was buried there.

The art historian Ellen Thormann writes about her: “The sculptor Helene Bertaux (1825–1909) is the most formative and successful person in the enforcement of women's rights within the visual arts”.

Works (selection)

Psyché sous l'empire du mystère . Sculpture by Hélène Bertaux.

Honors

  • Hélène Bertaux promenade in Rennes .

literature

  • Berteaux, Helena . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 46. Digitized
  • Édouard Lepag: Une conquête féministe - Mme Léon Bertaux . Paris 1911 (new edition 2009 ISBN 2-7466-0610-0 .)
  • Susan Waller: Women artists in the modern era. A documentary history . Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ 1991 ISBN 0-8108-2405-1 , pp. 245 ff.
  • Linda L Clark: Women and achievement in nineteenth-century Europe . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008. pp. 85 ff. Digitized
  • Sophie Jacques, La statuaire Hélène Bertaux (1825–1909) et la tradition académique - Analyze de trois nus, Mémoire de maîtrise en histoire de l'art, Québec, Université Laval, 2015. 173 p. ( en ligne sur Archimède).

Web links

Commons : Hélène Bertaux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Qui était Hélène Bertaux? ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mains-d-art.fr
  2. ↑ "[L] 'art de la femme [...] sera le corollaire naturel de l'art masculin. De cette alliance naîtra quelque chose que nous ne connaissons pas encore […] donnons naissance à un art qui portera la marque du génie de notre sexe: restons femmes, restons artistes, restons unies. "
  3. ↑ Ellen Thormann: Tamara de Lempicka. Art critics and artists in Paris . Reimer, Berlin 1993, p. 64.
personal data
SURNAME Bertaux, Hélène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bertaux, Joséphine Charlotte Hélène (full name); Hébert, Joséphine Charlotte Hélène (maiden name); Berteaux, Helena; Allelite (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1909
Place of death Saint-Michel-de-Chavaignes