Marie Raymond
Marie Raymond (born May 4, 1908 in Colle-sur-Loup , Département Alpes-Maritimes , † 1989 in Paris ) was a French painter and mother of the painter Yves Klein .
life and work
Raymond studied at the free academies in Nice and Paris. She painted representationally until 1938 and then turned to abstract painting . In her work she represented a traditional compositional approach of color and form balance, which was influenced by the École de Paris in the vicinity of the Denise René Gallery, which was not entirely without the influence of her painter colleagues Nicolas de Staël and Piet Mondrian .
Raymond was married to Fred (Frédéric) Klein, a figurative painter of Indonesian descent. Yves Klein was born in 1928 in his mother's home in Nice. In 1930 Marie Raymond moved with her husband to Paris, where her studio neighbor on Montmartre was Piet Mondrian. However, she had to return to Nice temporarily due to financial problems. At the beginning of the war , Raymond and her husband sought refuge for four years in Cagnes-sur-Mer in the south of France , where an artist community had formed around the exiled Russian painter Nicolas de Staël and the German Hans Hartung .
She was one of the successful painters in Paris in the early 1950s . In 1949 she was awarded the important Prix Kandinsky art prize. Between 1946 and 1954, a weekly salon , called “Les Lundis de Marie”, was held in the family's apartment , frequented by influential gallery owners and artists such as Iris Clerc , Colette Allendy , Jean Tinguely and Raymond Hains , and Yves Klein was often present was. In 1960 Marie Raymond received the Italian Premio Marzotto . For several years she was the Paris correspondent for the Dutch magazine Kunst en Kultuur .
Exhibitions
- 1951 Biennale de Sao Paulo
- 2004 Yves Klein and Marie Raymond, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers
- 2006 Yves Klein and Marie Raymond, Museums Ludwig, Koblenz
literature
- Robert Fleck: “Marie Raymond, Yves Klein” on the exhibition in the Ludwig Museum Koblenz. Kerber, 2006, ISBN 3-938025-83-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Marie Raymond in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
- Website of the estate administration
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raymond, Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French abstract art painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colle-sur-Loup , Alpes-Maritimes department |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1989 |
| Place of death | Paris |