Léon Noireaut

Léon Noireaut (born December 31, 1886 in Paris , † unknown) was a French painter .

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Noireaut studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris .

He fought as a French soldier in Belgium during the First World War . He was taken prisoner of war in Germany on August 22, 1914 in Rossignol . On the basis of several paintings and drawings, conclusions can be drawn about four German prisoner-of-war camps: Ahlen-Falkenberger Moor near Cuxhaven, Ohrdruf near Gotha, Kassel and Mannheim .

In the 1920s and 1930s, the painter, who from then on lived in Mannheim and Paris, achieved a certain wealth. He and his German wife Elisabeth Noireaut, née Baro, bought a house in Mannheim's Dürerstrasse. At the beginning of the Second World War , the couple left Mannheim for Paris, where they settled after the end of the war. The most recent painting by Noireaut, signed with a date, is from 1964.

Noireaut's work was initially based on French impressionism . After a phase during his imprisonment in World War I, in which Noireaut painted pictures with little color, he then found his way back to his colorful impressionistic painting style. He collected motifs during his travels through France, Italy and Tunisia. Different Parisian street scenes can often be seen in the paintings made after 1945. As a portraitist , he focused on the character representation of male people with headgear and full beards, who either drank wine or smoked tobacco pipes. There are whole series of different portraits of a few typical characters.

signature

Noireaut signed his pictures with L. Noireaut. Based on the style and style of the signature, conclusions can be drawn about the development phase. There are also noireaut paintings signed with the pseudonym E. Baro.

literature

• Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 30/2015, pages 35-44, ISBN 978-3-89735-952-9
• B. Labat-Poussin, C. Obert: Archives de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (AJ52 1 à 1415), Center historique des archives nationales, 1998, p. 442 “Noireaut (Léon), élève peintre entre 1911 et 1920 ".
• Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0199773787 : Noireaut painter without first name as a French painter of the 19th / 20th centuries. Century.
• Prisoner list no. 17731 of the Cassel camp of April 23, 1917. The serial number 9 contains personal information about Léon Noireaut.

Web links

• Private website with information on Léon Noireaut and a catalog raisonné