Marcel Bouraine

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Marcel André Bouraine (* 1886 in Pontoise , France ; † 1948 ) was a French sculptor of Art Deco . He also used the stage names Derenne and Briand .

Life

Initially, Bouraine was largely self-taught, but for a while also a student of the sculptor Alexandre Falguière . During the First World War , Bouraine fell into German captivity and was interned in Switzerland . Here he produced several monuments, including one for the city of Lausanne . At the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva , he studied with Max Le Verrier and Pierre Le Faguays , who remained friends throughout their lives and often worked together.

In the 1920s he exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Tuileries (1922), the Salon d'Automne , the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des Artistes Français . He designed smaller sculptures for Parisian foundries such as Susse Frères , Edmond Etling , Max Le Verrier and the foundry of the Austrian Arthur Goldscheider , a son of Friedrich Goldscheider . In the 1920s, Bouraine often showed his works in the context of exhibitions by the artist groups La Stèle (modern sculpture) and L'Evolution (decorative arts and crafts), founded by Arthur Goldscheider . In the sculpture category , he took part in the art competition of the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. In 1920 he created the tomb in Geneva for the French interned soldiers who died during the First World War.

In 1928 Bouraine received a number of commissions from the sculptor Gabriel Argy-Rousseau (1885–1953), including mainly female nudes, but also a fountain and an illuminated group, all of which were executed in colored, translucent pâte de verre glass. At the Salon d'Automne in the same year he showed the three translucent statues Baigneuse ( German  bathing ), Danseuse ( dancer ) and Jeunsesse ( youth ), which had been made by the Société Anonyme des Pâtes de Verre d'Argy-Rousseau . In 1935 the city of Paris bought a terracotta bust from him . He created a large sculpture for the Sèvres Pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 . During the Second World War , Bouraine withdrew to Biot (Alpes-Maritimes) and manufactured pipe bowls for the OPTIM brand .

Bouraine's work was inspired by realism and art deco . For his chryselephantine statuettes he mostly worked with bronze , ivory , glass and ceramics . Many of his works have classical themes and show mythological figures such as Pan and Satyre , but also athletic female figures such as the Roman goddess Diana hunting or with a shield and spear, and the Amazon queen Penthesilea . His work also includes some animal sculptures such as tiger or marabou.

He used his stage names Derenne and Briand mainly for his metal works that were not made of bronze and were produced by Max Le Verrier. Bouraine was in a relationship with the Romanian artist Aurore Onu .

Works (selection)

  • Athéna
  • Le lanceur de poids
  • Le Boxeur
  • Une Baigneuse Drapée
  • Mère et enfant , around 1920
  • Nijinsky , around 1920
  • Archer , around 1925
  • Harlequin , around 1925
  • Penthésilée, pure des Amzones , around 1930
  • Léda et le cygne , around 1930

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club 2016, ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . P. 32.
  2. ^ Art Déco in Paris under Arthur Goldscheider. ( Memento from January 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: goldscheider.de
  3. ↑ Marcel Bouraine in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  4. ↑ 1920, photo of the tomb in Geneva
personal data
SURNAME Bouraine, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouraine, Marcel André (full name); Derenne (stage name); Briand (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontoise , France
DATE OF DEATH 1948