Jean Olin

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Jean Olin , actually Sigismond Olesiewicz , (* 1891 or 1894 in Warsaw , Weichselland , Russian Empire ; † May 13, 1972 in Paris , France ) was a French painter and decorator .

Life

Jean Olin exhibited his work between 1920 and 1921, first in the Crimea , then in Odessa . Together with the painter Philippe Hosiasson (1898–1978), whom he was a close friend throughout his life, he left the Russian Soviet Socialist Federative Republic in 1922 and went to Paris. Here he took the name Jean Olin and showed his work in the same year at the salons of the Société du Salon d'Automne , the Société des Artistes Indépendants and other group exhibitions. In Rome he married the Ukrainian Barbara Konstan (1895–1966). Back in Paris, both worked as decorators in Atelier Primavera , the design studio of the Parisian department store Les Grands Magasins du Printemps . During this time he also created an important work of mystical and religious painting. Several Art Deco- style tapestries were commissioned from him, which he had the Aubusson and Gobelin manufacturers weave based on his cardboard templates . Olin was a member of the artist group L'Evolution , founded by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) Arthur Goldscheider , to which numerous craftsmen and decorators belonged.

At the beginning of the 1930s, Olin and Hosiasson moved in the vicinity of the group of painters, including Christian Bérard , Pavel Tchelitchev, Eugène Bermann and Léon Zack , which gathered around the critic Waldemar George as a neo-humanist , but was ultimately not enthusiastic about their style. He continued to show his work at the Salon des Société des Artistes Indépendants, but also at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles and in some collective exhibitions. Since its inception, he had exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Art Sacré de J. Pichard, alone or with Barbara Konstan. Between 1940 and 1946 numerous pictures and prints were created for the Odilia publishers. He later illustrated articles for the weekly La Vie Catholique .

In his first one-man show after the war in 1946, Olin showed paintings from his Expressionist period. In the 1950s and 1960s he arranged extensive wall decorations in the seminary of Besançon on behalf of Le Corbusier . He made stained glass for a number of churches, for example in Pont-de-Dore and Mont-Dore . Above all, however, Jean Olin devoted himself to easel painting. From the Jewish faith he had converted to Catholicism ; a new faith to which he fervently clung to, which explains his sacred images.

The style of painting in Olin's last 20 years was abstract . He was averse to neo-humanism; he was only attracted by geometric abstraction, which changed when he began to use informal signs and shapes from 1955 onwards . After meeting Greta Knutson , Victor Brauner and Georges Hugnet in Brittany , he also took up surrealist topics, which, however, did not become very well known. However, his painting always retained an oriental, Slavic, almost Byzantine character. He was closely associated with artists of the Paris School of Slavic origin, including Marc Chagall , Sonia Delaunay-Terk , Dora Maar , Alexandra Exter , Boris Simon-Gontcharov , Véra Pagava , Jean Pougny , Léon Zack and others.

Jean Olin died in 1972 in the Hôpital Cochin hospital in Paris .

Works (selection)

  • Ora et labora
  • Nature morte aux fruits
  • Femmes sur la plage
  • Abstract composition
  • Les amoureux
  • Cavalcade mysterieuse , 1969

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The literature is divided on Olin's date of birth:
    • DNB names both 1891 and 1894
    • IdRef mentions 1894
    • LCCN cites 1891
    • RKD-Nederlands names June 21, 1891 or 1894, after Christian Wittebroodt: Het lot van Olin. Zoektocht naar het transcedente in zijn kunst. Budel, Damon 2008. ISBN 978-90-5573-821-2 , pp. 9-18
    • VIAF mentions 1891
  2. ^ "Farm Life", Important, Rare Art Deco Tapestry by Jean Olin, France . In: 1stdibs.com
  3. ↑ a b c d e Jean Olesiewick, dit Jean Olin, ne en Pologne vers 1894. In: opus-mirabilis.fr
  4. ^ Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.
  5. ↑ Philippe Hosiasson, Samuel Melvin Kootz: painting Textural, Paris, 1956-58. An exhibition on the occasion of the donation of twenty-one paintings to the University of Virginia Art Museum by Samuel M. Kootz. September 16 - October 16, 1977. University of Virginia Art Museum , p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Olin, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olesiewicz, Sigismond (real name); Olesevič, Sigizmund Stanislavovič; Olesiewicz, Sygmunt; Olesiewicz, Zygmunt; Ollessievich, Sigismond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and decorator
DATE OF BIRTH 1891 or 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw , Weichselland , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1972
Place of death Paris , France