Jeanne Bucher
Marie-Jeanne Bucher (born February 16, 1872 in Gebweiler , Alsace-Lorraine , † November 1, 1946 in Paris ) was a French art dealer and founder of the avant-garde Jeanne Bucher gallery in Paris.
life and work
Jeanne Bucher, sister of the doctor and advocate of French interests in Alsace, Pierre Bucher (1869–1921), came to Paris in 1922. In 1925 she opened her first gallery at 3, rue du Cherche-Midi in an adjoining room of the boutique of the architect and interior designer Pierre Chareau . The first exhibition showed works by Georges Braque , Juan Gris and André Masson ; the first publication of a book was Jean Lurçat's illustrated work, Baroques .
From 1929 to 1932 the gallery had its own seat in the neighboring rooms at 5, rue du Cherche-Midi. She was the successor to the gallery "Au sacre du Printemps" founded by Hans Effenberger , which is known for the second surrealist exhibition "Le Surréalisme, existe-t-il?". From 1932 to 1934 it moved back to its first location, and in 1936 Bucher opened a gallery at 9, boulevard du Montparnasse. The current gallery, which still bears her name, was taken over by Jean-François Jaeger in 1947 and moved to its current location at 53, rue de Seine in Paris in 1960.
Bucher showed works by avant-garde artists from the styles of Cubism and Surrealism such as Georges Braque, Max Ernst , Alberto Giacometti , Georges Gimel , Juan Gris, Georges Hugnet , Wassily Kandinsky , Henri Laurens , Jacques Lipchitz , André Masson, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso . Books by the artists she represented appeared in the Éditions Jeanne Bucher, for example in 1926 Max Ernst's Histoire naturelle , a portfolio with 34 collotype prints after frottages, and in 1934 his collage novel Une semaine de bonté .
During the occupation of France by National Socialist Germany in World War II , Bucher had the courage to exhibit works by ostracized artists, including Ernst, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Miró and the Paris debut of Nicolas de Staël in 1944, despite the threat of sanctions . A little later Jeanne Bucher died in Paris in 1946.
literature
- Galerie Jeanne Bucher: Jeanne Bucher: Une galerie d'avant-garde, 1925–1946: de Max Ernst à de Staël . Les Musees de la ville de Strasbourg, Skira, Geneva 1994, ISBN 2-605-00272-1
- Galerie Jeanne Bucher at WorldCat
Web links
- Jeanne Bucher at lexpress.fr
- Data for Galerie Jeanne Bucher in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Jeanne Bucher Jaeger Gallery
- Exhibitions by Galerie Jeanne Bucher on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from the web links listed below
- ^ Helmut Mayer: Exhibition Art in War. The canvas as the last vanishing point. , faz.net, November 14, 2012, accessed October 23, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bucher, Jeanne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bucher, Marie-Jeanne (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French gallery owner and art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guebwiller , Alsace |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1946 |
| Place of death | Paris |