Marie-Alain Couturier
Marie-Alain Couturier OP (born November 15, 1897 in Montbrison , † February 9, 1954 in Paris ) was a French Dominican , glass painter and art critic .
He served in World War I from 1917 to 1918 and enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris in 1919 . He worked as an artist in Paris until 1925 and joined the Dominican Order in the same year . He was ordained a priest in 1930 and studied in Rome from 1931 to 1935, with interruptions, until he got to his real life's work. From 1936 to 1954 he was together with Pie-Régamey editor -in- chief of L'Art Sacré magazine . 1940 to 1945 he was in New York due to the war , where he stayed repeatedly after the Second World War. Through his engagement with modernism, Couturier has become a bridge builder between the visual arts and the church's clients. He made the sacred buildings of Le Corbusier and several works by Fernand Léger , Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault possible, directly or indirectly .
Marie-Alain Couturier died early of complications from myasthenia .
literature
- Hartwig Bischof: The spirit blows where it can. M.-A. Couturier “in conversation” . Editions St. Virgil, Salzburg 1999, ISBN 3-9501034-1-4 .
- Ekkart Sauser : Marie-Alain Couturier. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 247-248.
- Sven Ochsenreither: Art and Church at the End of Classical Modernism . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. [u. a.] 2004, ISBN 3-631-52137-5 .
- Antoine Lion: Art sacré et modernité en France. Le rôle du P. Marie-Alain Couturier . In: Revue de l'histoire des religions . No. 1 , March 2010, ISSN 0035-1423 , p. 109–126 , doi : 10.4000 / rhr.7567 (French).
Web links
- Literature by and about Marie-Alain Couturier in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ dominicains.revues.org
- ^ Joanna Weber: Father Marie-Alain Couturier papers . Ed .: Yale Institute of Sacred Music. New Haven 1994, OCLC 702690759 , pp. 4 ( web.library.yale.edu [PDF]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Couturier, Marie-Alain |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Couturier, Marie-Alain OP |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French religious and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montbrison (Loire) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1954 |
| Place of death | Paris |