Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (born March 4, 1889 in Bordeaux , † November 16, 1962 in Paris ) was a French painter and poster artist.
Life
Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a student at the secondary school in Bordeaux and in Paris at the Lycée Rollin, he was passionate about drawing. He then received training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. In 1911 he was the winner of the Prix de Rome . The painter Giovanni Boldini was his real inspiration. In the 1920s he focused on portraits and claimed to be the "inventor of pin-up ". He also designed dresses for the fashion designer Paul Poiret . In 1938 he executed an advertising poster for the perfume Féerie von Rigaud, on which a young woman poses naked for the product.
In 1936 and 1938 he was a member of the jury for the Miss France election. In 1939 he created the poster for the first Cannes International Film Festival ; these were started because of the general mobilization. In 1950 he was elected a member of the Institut de France . From 1955 to 1962 he was curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris; here he organized exhibitions on the works of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Goya.
He lived with his wife, the sculptor Odette Maugendre-Villers (1884–1973), in the “La Californie” villa district of Cannes. His Villa Domergue, built in Tuscan style in 1929, was declared a historic building after his death and is now open to the public. In Paris, Domerque lived in an apartment on Avenue d'Iéna .
He died on November 16, 1962 on a sidewalk in Paris after a heart attack. In 2000, he was buried with his wife (she died in 1973) in an Etruscan-style mausoleum built for this purpose in the garden of Villa Domerque.
At the beginning of his career he began as a landscape painter, he quickly became a painter of the nude and half-naked, a mischievous coquetry, which established his artistic reputation and with which he became wealthy through his wealth of buyers. Known for his silhouettes with a long gooseneck, Domergue dedicated his painting art to the image of the sensual French woman, playful and flirtatious.
He is the brother of the journalist and art critic René Domergue and the cousin of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec .
Works
- Portrait of René Domergue, 1916
- Portrait of Josephine Baker , 1940
- Portrait of Nadine de Rothschild
Individual evidence
- ^ Rigaud 1937 Féerie, Jean-Gabriel Domergue
- ^ Painting: The painter of sophisticated women - Der Spiegel29/1948
- ↑ Died: Jean-Gabriel Domergue - Der Spiegel 48/1962
- ↑ Archives de peintre Jean-Gabriel Domergue - expertise certificat ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ enchère passée
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Domergue, Jean-Gabriel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Domergue, Jean Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and poster artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1962 |
| Place of death | Paris |