Henri Édouard Navarre

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Henri Édouard Navarre (born April 4, 1885 in Paris , France , † August 11, 1971 there ) was a French sculptor and glass artist .

life and work

Mask for a fountain, glass, before 1937. Collection, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Altar of the chapel on the liner Île de France .
1st class dining room, Île de France . In the middle is Navarre's fountain.

Henri Édouard Navarre was first trained as an architect by his father . He studied sculpture at the Bernard Palissy School in Paris and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts before turning to the technical side of lead glass and mosaic production at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers . He also learned the craft of goldsmith and silversmith. He was a student of the stained glass painter Maurice Marinot , whose training influenced Navarre's work.

In 1906 he began manufacturing architectural and decorative stone carvings. In 1922 he created reliefs on the monument of the watchtower on the Pointe de Grave headland near Le Verdon-sur-Mer , which was created in collaboration with Antoine Bourdelle and Andre Ventre ; a year later a memorial for the French ace pilot Georges Guynemer in Compiègne . During this time he made statuettes , which he exhibited in the Paris salons. In 1924 he began to work in glass, mostly in the Art Deco style . His first assignment was to design the windows for the L'Intransigeant magazine building in Paris. In the same year he began manufacturing smaller pieces of glass and a series of glass masks.

He exhibited his first vases in the shop of the blacksmith Edgar Brandt ; soon afterwards he was selling his works in the Parisian Maison Georges Rouard . When processing the mostly heavy thick-walled glass, he preferred plain, simple shapes. He implemented the interior decoration using metal oxides and patterned rolling plates , over which the preform was rolled before it was encased in an outer layer of glass. Navarre also made statuettes and memorial plaques made of bronze, stone, marble and wood as well as medals made of gold, silver or bronze. Inspired by Marinot, he designed thick-walled glass works in mostly simple, but occasionally also complicated shapes. He also made some glass sculptures, including some abstract portraits.

Navarre carried out numerous other private and public commissions, including a large statue of Christ made of cast glass for the altar of the chapel on the liner Île de France . For the first class dining room he made a fountain out of silver-plated and gold-plated metal pipes.

For Edgar Brandt's Porte d'honneur , which was shown at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris in 1925, he produced a series of bas-reliefs. He belonged to the artist group La Stèle founded by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) and sculptor Arthur Goldscheider in the early 1920s with representatives of Art Deco , whose work Goldscheider also showed at this exhibition in 1925. Throughout the 1930s, Navarre exhibited regularly at the annual salons of the Société des artistes décorateurs and elsewhere nationally and internationally, such as in 1928 at Macy’s International Exhibition of Arts in Industry in New York City and in 1929/30 at the touring exhibition Exhibition of Contemporary Glass and Rugs of the American Federation of Arts .

His bas-reliefs also adorned the proscenium of the Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris. The monumental granite lion statues at the entrance gate created by Jean Prouvé to the Palais des Colonies , the site of the 1931 Paris colonial exhibition, were also by Navarre. After the Second World War , Navarre hardly produced any glass work - he only briefly returned to the profession in the 1960s - and concentrated on the production of architectural sculptures for churches and schools in France.

Henri Édouard Navarre was inducted into the Legion of Honor as a knight in 1947 .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Henri-Edouard Navarre (French, 1885-1971). In: Bonhams , London.
  2. ↑ a b c Victor Arwas : The Art of Glass. Art Nouveau to Art Deco. Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery. Papadakis Publisher, 1996. ISBN 1-90109-200-3 , p. 67.
  3. ↑ Eric Knowles : Art Deco. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. ISBN 0-74781-520-8 , p. 201.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Jared Goss: French Art Deco . Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. ISBN 0-30020-430-2 , pp. 157, 158.
  5. ^ Charles Holme, Guy Eglinton, Peyton Boswell, William Bernard McCormick, Henry James Whigham: International Studio. Volume 97, issues 400-406. New York Offices of the International Studio, 1930. p. 10.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ↑ Cynthia Fowler: Hooked Rugs: "Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design". Routledge, 2017, ISBN 1-35156-353-X , p. 137.
personal data
SURNAME Navarre, Henri Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1971
Place of death Paris , France