Jean Metzinger
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Jean Metzinger (born June 25, 1883 in Nantes , † November 3, 1956 in Paris ) was a French painter . His style developed from Neo-Impressionism through Fauvism to analytical Cubism .
Life
Metzinger spent his youth in his birthplace and moved to Paris in 1903 at the age of 20 to study medicine. However, he soon gave up on this project to become a painter. In Paris he made friends with Robert Delaunay and met the poet Max Jacob , who introduced him to the group around Guillaume Apollinaire . So he met the painters of the Bateau-Lavoir , in particular Georges Braque , Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris . In 1910 Metzinger exhibited for the first time in the Salon des Indépendants , in which he participated again in 1911, together with Delaunay, Albert Gleizes and Fernand Léger . In 1912 he co-founded the “ Section d'Or ” and wrote the treatise Du Cubisme together with Gleizes . Numerous other exhibitions, including in the Salon d'Automne (1911, 1913), in the "Galerie de la Boétie" in Paris (1912), in the galleries Der Sturm in Berlin (1913), where he took a picture at the First German Autumn Salon exhibited, " Berthe Weill " (1913, Paris) and the "Montross Gallery" in New York (1916) bear witness to the rapid, now also international success of the painter who at the Académie de la palette , later the Académie Arenius was appointed .
In World War I Metzinger was confiscated and then returned to Paris, where he, apart from his stay in Bandol to 1943 during World War II until his death lived. There he received a three-year teaching post at the Académie Frochot in 1950 .
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Metzinger initially oriented himself towards the neo-impressionist style of painting, which led him to mosaic-like color patterns between 1905 and 1908 and which can be regarded as his first artistic highlight. These late neo-impressionist pictures with their precisely juxtaposed patches of color already built a bridge to his later Cubist works, as this already showed the tendency towards construction and the preference for a clear picture order. The style of painting became increasingly geometrical and the conception of the new image design was supported by the artistic exchange with Braque, Picasso and Gris. Metzinger's works around 1909 finally document the trend that was later referred to as analytical cubism, but was initially received entirely negatively in the criticism. In the 1920s, Metzinger temporarily broke away from Cubism.
In 1910 he laid down his theories in literary terms: They appeared under the title Notes on Painting . In 1912, collaboration with Albert Gleizes led to the joint theoretical treatise Du Cubisme , which quickly became the talk of the town. To mark the centenary of the publication Du Cubisme in 2012, an exhibition was held at the Musée de la Poste in Paris, showing works by the authors and painters Metzinger and Gleizes, as well as other contemporary artists.
Web links
- Metzinger in ArtCyclopedia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gleizes-Metzinger, “You Cubisme et après” . ( Memento from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 617 kB), visitparis-cultureguide.parisinfo.com; Retrieved February 25, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Metzinger, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nantes |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1956 |
| Place of death | Paris |