Marie-Laure de Noailles
Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles (born October 31, 1902 in Paris , † January 29, 1970 ibid) was a French writer , poet and painter ; as well as art collector and art patron of the avant-garde .
Life
Marie-Laure Henriette Anne was the only child of the German - Jewish Parisian banker Maurice Bischoffsheim and his wife Marie-Thérèse de Chevigné, daughter of Comte Adhéaume de Chevigné and Laure Marie Gabrielle de Sade. After the early death of her father, her mother married the playwright Francis de Croisset (1877–1937) and through him discovered a love of art. She took private painting and drawing lessons from Jean Cocteau , with whom she had a love affair.
On February 9, 1923, Marie-Laure Bischoffsheim married in Paris the noble Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Viscount de Noailles (1891-1981), the second son of Prince François de Poix and his wife Madeleine-Marie Dubois de Courval. The mutual relationship resulted in two daughters:
- Laure Madeleine Thérèse Marie (1924–1979) ⚭ 1946 Bertrand de La Haye-Jousselin (1920–1995)
- Nathalie Valentine Marie (1927–2004) ⚭ 1949–1972 Alessandro Mario Perrone (1920–1980)
Shortly after the wedding, Charles de Noailles commissioned the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens to build the Villa Noailles in Hyères in the south of France . Here they invited artists and musicians to Hyères and spent their holidays with them. In the early 1930s, Marie-Laure de Noailles was known as an eccentric art collector and promoter, especially in the field of Cubism and Surrealism . In 1930 she and her husband financed the scandalous film L'Âge d'Or by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel , which premiered in the Villa Noailles before it was banned from showing after its first public presentation (lifted in 1981). During the Second World War , the couple and their children lived in England with their friend Consuelo Vanderbilt . After the war, Marie-Laure de Noailles continued her work as a patroness in Paris and Hyères, while at the same time concentrating on her paintings, which she exhibited annually in Parisian galleries since 1948 .
relationship
- Noailles was the great-great-great-granddaughter of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
- Her stepsister, Jacqueline de Croisset, married the American actor Yul Brynner in 1971 . After ten years of marriage and two adopted children together, the marriage was divorced.
- Her nephew, Philippe Lannes de Montebello (1936-2008), was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City .
literature
- Laurence Benaïm: Jaques Helleu & Chanel , Collection Rolf Heyne (2006) ISBN 3-89910-294-0
- Anne Martin-Fugier: Les salons de la III e République Art, littérature, politique , Perrin, Paris (2003)
- Laurence Benaïm: Marie-Laure de Noailles , Le Livre de Poche (2003) ISBN 2-253-15430-X
- Laurence Benaïm: Marie-Laure de Noailles: La vicomtesse du bizzare , Grasset & Fasquelle (2001) ISBN 2-246-52981-6
- James Lord : La Mère Ubu. MLN in: Extraordinary Women. Six portraits pp. 101–190. Matthes, Munich (1995) ISBN 3882218037 (also: Fischer TB)
Web links
- Marie-Laure de Noailles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- artnet.de (works)
- Online Gotha
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noailles, Marie-Laure de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bischoffsheim, Marie Laure Henriette Anne; Noailles, Marie-Laure Henriette de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, poet and painter; as well as art patrons in the avant-garde scene |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1970 |
| Place of death | Paris |