Jules Jouant

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Auguste Jules Alphonse Jouant (born June 19, 1882 in Paris , † 1921 ) was a French sculptor .

Life

Plaster bust of Prince Giedroyć , Salon de Paris 1883.

Jouant attended the École des beaux-arts de Paris . He was an intern with Auguste Rodin . In 1883 he exhibited the plaster bust of a prince from the Lithuanian noble family Giedroyć at the Salon de Paris . From 1985 he exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français , where in 1913 he received an "honorable mention". He also showed his work at the Salon der Société nationale des beaux-arts .

He was the teacher of the sculptor Raymond Martin .

Works (selection)

Jouant made busts of composers (including Richard Wagner , Frédéric Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven ) as well as grave monuments and memorials. He also designed numerous decorative statuettes in Art Nouveau style , which foundries such as Ferdinand Baroperne and Eugène Blot made and laid in bronze or pewter. He also designed many lamps, including some for the Daum crystal factory in Nancy . The École Boulle School of Applied Arts in Paris appointed him professor.

A Jouants lamp is in the Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk , Virginia . Other of his works have titles such as

  • Standing in bikini , statuette 1910–1915
  • Chardons
  • The Allure of Opium
  • Grand vase
  • Femme , statuette 1900
  • Gui , table lamp 1900
  • Cloche de table
  • Lamp de bureau, encrier floriforme
  • Skin vase amphora
  • Pavot
  • Opposite
  • Vide poche

literature

Web links

Commons : Jules Jouant  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philippe Burty : Salon de 1883 . Ludovic Baschet publishing house, Paris 1883, p. 190.
  2. ↑ a b c Victor Arwas : Art Nouveau. The French Aesthetic. Papadakis Publisher, 2002, ISBN 1-90109-237-2 , p. 615.
  3. ↑ Buste du prince Gedroyc . In: Salon de 1883, pp. 182, 183.
  4. ↑ Raymond Martin, Biography ( Memento of April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Lamp, ca.1900, bronze. In: French Sculpture Census.
personal data
SURNAME Jouant, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jouant, Auguste Jules Alphonse (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1921