Léo Laporte-Blairsy

Léo Michel Victor Laporte-Blairsy (born April 5, 1865 in Toulouse , France , † 1923 in Paris , France) was a French sculptor .

Life

Léo Laporte-Blairsy's parents were the traveling salesman Philippe Catherine Laporte and his wife Marie Éléonore Blerzy. In Toulouse, Laporte-Blairsy was a student of the sculptors Alexandre Falguière and Antonin Mercié . He moved to Paris and exhibited a sculpture there at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français , which elected him a member in 1897. In 1894 he won a third class medal here, and in 1898 he was awarded a second class medal. At the Paris World Exposition in 1900 , he received a silver medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 finally a medal first class. In 1903 he was accepted as a knight in the Legion of Honor .

Works (selection)

Laporte-Blairsy made some monumental sculptures, most of which were ordered or bought by the French state. He designed jewelry and many decorative statuettes made of bronze , ivory , gold , silver or pewter , some of which were also enamelled . He designed numerous bronze and glass lamps such as his silver-plated work with etched glass called La Voie lactée ( German Milky Way ) or La fée au coffret ( The fairy in a box ) made of bronze and glass, which achieved great popularity. The Éditeurs d'art Susse Frères , Siot-Decauville and Friedrich Goldscheider sold the products he designed. The table decoration Le Déjeuner fleuri was created for Arthur Goldscheider in 1907 . Laporte-Blairsy also made medals, some of which are on display at the Musée d'Orsay .

L'épave , Musée des beaux-arts de Nantes
Le reveil de Morphée , 1894
Le Faubourg Matabiau , Bonnefoy, Toulouse
Allegorie de la sculpture 1896
La Fontaine Clémence-Isaure , Toulouse

literature

Victor Arwas : Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic. Papadakis Publisher, 2002, ISBN 1-90109-237-2 , pp. 615, 616.
Laporte-Blairsy, Léo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928.
Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire des Peintres . 1976.

Web links

Commons : Léo Laporte-Blairsy - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Leo Laporte-Blairsy (French, 1867-1923). In: artnet , with pictures of Laporte-Blairsy's work.
Data sheet Léo Laporte-Blarsy . In: Base Léonore
Data sheet Léo Laporte-Blairsy. In: AGORHA at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art
Information on Léo Laporte-Blairsy in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b data sheet Léo Laporte-Blairsy. In: Musée d'Orsay
^ ^A ^b Victor Arwas : Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic. Papadakis Publishers, 2002, ISBN 1-90109-237-2 , pp. 615, 616.
^ Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.

personal data
SURNAME	Laporte-Blairsy, Léo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Laporte-Blairsy, Léo Michel Victor (full name); Laporte-Blairzy, Léo; Laporte-Blaisin, Léo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toulouse , France
DATE OF DEATH	1923
Place of death	Paris , France

[Orsay-1] ta sheet Léo Laporte-Blairsy. In: Musée d'Orsay

[Arwas-2] A ^b Victor Arwas : Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic. Papadakis Publishers, 2002, ISBN 1-90109-237-2 , pp. 615, 616.

[Dechant/Goldscheider-3] Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.