Jules Alfred Giess
Jules Alfred Giess (born April 21, 1901 in Morschwiller-le-Bas , Haut-Rhin department ; † September 26, 1973 in Gray , Haute-Saône department ) was a French painter who mainly painted landscapes, still lifes, nudes and portraits in predominantly painted with restrained coloring. It is usually assigned to the New Objectivity . From 1963 he was president of the Paris Académie des Beaux-Arts , of which he was a member from 1955.
Life
After an apprenticeship in a drawing studio for fabric printing patterns in the Alsatian city of Mulhouse , the son of a cabinet maker went to Paris in 1924 to study painting in Jean Pierre Laurens' studio. Giess made rapid progress and won numerous awards, including the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1929 . 1930–33 he received a scholarship from the Roman Villa Medici , and from 1933/34 to the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid . He had his first solo exhibition in 1937 at the Charpentier gallery in Paris. After military service in 1939/40, Giess retired to his wife's homeland, Franche-Comté , which borders Alsace in the south. They lived in Champlitte . The nature-loving painter also ran agriculture here. He maintained the connection to Paris only through submissions to the salon exhibitions, where the city of Paris and the French state regularly acquired Giess paintings. In 1954 Giess returned to Paris. In 1955 he became a member and in 1963 President of the Academy of Fine Arts . In 1968 he received the Academy's Prix d'Aumale for the quality of his painting. Giess exhibited in New York (1962), Munich (1963) and Zurich (1968) , among others . He stayed connected to his homeland mainly through several biennials that he organized in Mulhouse. There he also executed wall paintings in public buildings.
Giess' paintings can now be found in numerous domestic and foreign collections. A domestic death scene from 1927 that he painted hangs in Germany's only museum for sepulchral culture in Kassel. Biographical information can be found in the Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon (AKL).
Web links to images
- Clouds, 1926
- My studio in Rome, 1932 or 1937? (Pictured on the page below August 15, 2011.)
- Reclining female nude in the studio, 1935
- Reclining nude, 1941
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anne-Marie Debelfort, Artists of the World L III, 2007 435
- ↑ Stefanie Knöll , accessed on September 21, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giess, Jules Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morschwiller-le-Bas , Haut-Rhin department |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1973 |
| Place of death | Gray , Haute-Saône department |