Marius Sain

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Marius Joseph Saïn (* 1877 in Montfavet , France ; † May 17, 1961 in the Seine-et-Oise department , France) was a French sculptor .

Life

Marius Saïn was the brother of the painter Paul Saïn . He attended the École des beaux-arts d'Avignon and the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Marseille . After the death of his parents in 1901, he erected a memorial for them in the Montfavet cemetery. In 1902 he moved to Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris with a scholarship from the city of Avignon . There he was a student of the sculptors Gabriel Thomas , Jean-Antoine Injalbert and Henri Allouard and worked with Felix Charpentier in his workshop. In Paris he benefited from the fame of his older brother Paul, through whose contacts he received several private and state commissions for monuments.

In 1903 he took part in the Exposition de la société vauclusienne des amis des arts . In 1901 and 1903 (member from that year) he exhibited at the Salon de Société des artistes français . At the 1903 salon he exhibited his work À la recherche des crabes , which earned him an honorable mention . The work was acquired by a member (baron) of the Rothschild family for the Musée des Beaux-arts de Grenoble . In 1906 he received a third class medal at the Salon de Société des artistes français and in 1910 a second class medal . The Société coloniale des artistes français granted him a travel grant after participating in their exhibition in 1910. He moved to Algeria for several months, from where he brought back some orientalist works. In 1912 he traveled to Greece, but was drafted into service in the First World War in 1914. In 1922, Marius Saïn received the Prix ​​de la compagnie de la navigation mixte prize of the French colonial artists' association, then the Prix ​​de l'Afrique equatoriale française . In 1924 he exhibited two plaster figures at the Salon of the Colonial Society; Young Arab Girl and Young Arab Shepherd .

Saïn belonged to the artist group La Stèle founded by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) and sculptor Arthur Goldscheider in the early 1920s with representatives of Art Deco , whose work Goldscheider exhibited in 1925 at the Paris Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern . In 1926 Saïn was accepted as a knight in the Legion of Honor . Until 1935 he exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français .

Works (selection)

  • Le monument aux morts de Chemillé , 1919
  • Jeune Berbère
  • Vénus Anadyomène
  • Pendule Faunes aux chevreaux
  • Le loup
  • Danseuse , 1910
  • Le porteur d'eau grec et son âne

literature

  • Stéphane Richemond, Denise Grouard: Les orientalistes: dictionnaire des sculpteurs, XIXe-XXe siècles. Les Éditions de l'Amateur, 2008. ISBN 2-85917-484-2 , pp. 191,192.
  • Raphaël Mérindol: Un Montfavetain de Paris, le sculpteur Marius Saïn (1877–1961). Rhône et Comtat No. 6, Avignon 1987, pp. 53-69.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Monument aux morts. Le sculpteur. In: clugnatois.com
  2. ↑ a b c d SAÏN, Marius Joseph (born 1877), Sculptor. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.
  3. ↑ Brigitte Labat-Poussin, Caroline Obert: Archives de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (AJ52 1 à 1415) . Center historique des archives nationales, 1998. ISBN 2-86000-259-6 , p. 339.
  4. ^ Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.
  5. ↑ Le monument aux morts de Chemillé. Un symbols of patriotism local. In: maugesetbocage.com
personal data
SURNAME Saïn, Marius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saïn, Marius Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Montfavet , France
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1961
Place of death Seine-et-Oise department , France