Léon Delagrange

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Léon Delagrange, between 1908 and 1910

Ferdinand Marie Léon Delagrange , also Léon Noël Delagrange (born March 13, 1872 in Orléans , France , † January 4, 1910 in Bordeaux , France) was a French sculptor of Art Nouveau and Art Deco . As a pioneer in aviation, he died in an aircraft accident in Croix d'Hins near Bordeaux.

Life

sculptor

Léon Delagrange in his studio, 1908. Oval marked is a working model of the Florentine Pagen or Le page royal .

Léon Delagrange was the son of a textile manufacturer. As a teenager he studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris with Louis-Ernest Barrias and Charles Vital-Cornu . From 1894 to 1907 he exhibited at the salons of the Société des Artistes Français in Paris , where he received an award in 1901.

He made busts and chryselephantine statuettes from bronze and ivory. Some of his works such as Le page royal and Templier were handcrafted by the Paris art foundry Arthur Goldscheider , others such as Loie Fuller from Fonderie Colin & Cie. As an artist he was known under the name Léon Noël Delagrange .

Works (selection)

  • Le page royal
  • Symbol list
  • Loïe Fuller , dancer
  • Pensée Nue Assise
  • Templars
  • Gitane
  • La Belle Milanaise
  • La Liseuse
  • Vide-poches figurant une femme fleur
  • Tunisienne
  • L'venittiene
  • Jeanne D'Arc
  • Vase soliflore
  • Trois grâces

pilot

Delagrange with Thérèse Peltier on July 8, 1908 in Turin
Delagrange setting his world record on September 6, 1908 at Issy-les-Moulineaux airfield

However, Delagrange's passion was aviation. In 1907, as one of the first flight pioneers, he ordered a double-decker aircraft from the Voisin brothers , who with the implementation of this order, the Voisin-Delagrange I , created the prototype of their successful model Voisin Standard and thus established themselves as an aircraft manufacturer. He completed his first public flight on March 16, 1907 in the Parc de Bagatelle des Bois de Boulogne in Paris. In the same year he was elected President of the Aéro-Club de France . In 1908 he finally gave up sculpture in order to devote himself entirely to aviation.

After the destruction of the Delagrange I, in the autumn of 1907 he ordered another aircraft from the Voisin brothers based on the model of the HF I built for Henry Farman. It was named Delagrange No. 2 called. The first successful flight took place in January 1908. In October the aircraft received fabric coverings between the wings and was moved to Delagrange No. 3 renamed. The aircraft was exhibited at the Aero Salon in Paris in December 1908 .

Delagrange toured Italy where he gave flight demonstrations. During a demonstration in Turin on July 8, 1908 , he made the world's first flight with a female passenger, his friend, sculptor Thérèse Peltier . In September 1908, he set a record when he covered 24.5 kilometers (15.2 miles) in 29 minutes and 53 seconds; more records followed. On January 7, 1909, he was the third of the first eight people to receive a pilot's certificate from the Aéro-Club de France . In 1909 he was accepted into the Legion of Honor . He took part in air shows and air races in Port Aviation near Viry-Châtillon , Reims , Spa and Doncaster .

Léon Delagrange died on January 4, 1910 in an accident involving his monoplane in Croix d'Hins near Bordeaux. The aircraft lost a wing due to adverse winds and crashed, Delagrange could not save himself from the machine; his skull was crushed by the engine of the " Blériot XI ". He was the fourth pilot in the world to lose his life in an airplane accident.

Honors

Streets in several cities in France are named after Delagrange, for example Rue Léon Delagrange in Paris, Issy-les-Moulineaux , Viry-Châtillon , Marcheprime and Avenue Léon Delagrange in Orléans .

The French Post honored Delagrange in 2010 with its image on a postage stamp.

literature

Web links

Commons : Léon Delagrange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leon Noel Delagrange (1872-1910) - Goldscheider . In: invaluable.com . Clevedon, United Kingdom 25 November 2010.
  2. ^ The Templar, An Ivory and Patinated Bronze Sculpture. Cast and Carved from a Model by Léon Delagrange, circa 1900. In: sinaiandsons.com .
  3. ↑ Applies to the Bronze Sculpture of Loie Fuller by Delagrange . ( Memento of January 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: liveauctioneers.com .
  4. ^ Nouveaux essais de l'aéroplane Delagrange . In: L'Aérophile . April 1907, ISSN  0994-8929 , p. 105 ( JPG file [accessed April 19, 2017]).
  5. ↑ a b c Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club Art Books, 2016. ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . Pp. 81, 82.
  6. ↑ Leonard E. Opdycke: French Airplanes before the Grand War .
  7. ↑ Flight of January 9, 1909, p. 19.
  8. ↑ Nos Aviateurs à i'Étranger - Léon Delagrange en Italie . In: i'Aérophile . July 1908, ISSN 0994-8929 , p.   271 ( Gallica [accessed April 28, 2019]).
  9. ↑ a b c Léon Delagrange. 1872-1910 (French Pilot's License No. 3) In: The First Air Races.
  10. ↑ 354 Aéro-Club de France Pilot Aviators . Flight magazine, February 4, 1911, p. 88.
  11. ^ Ferdinand Léon Delagrange. 1873 - 1910. [sic] In earlyaviators.com.
  12. ↑ 1910, newspaper report on Delegrange's crash
  13. ↑ Timbre: 2010 Léon Delagrange 1872-1910 .
personal data
SURNAME Delagrange, Léon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delagrange, Ferdinand Marie Léon (full name); Delagrange, Léon Noël (stage name as sculptor)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor and aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Orléans , France
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1910
Place of death Bordeaux , France