Mary Meerson

Mary Meerson (born November 12, 1902 in Sofia as Marija Popowa , † July 19, 1993 in Paris ) was a Bulgarian ballet dancer , model and archivist of the Cinémathèque française .

Mary Meerson came to Paris via St. Petersburg with Sergei Diaghilev's ballet group . She married the Russian painter and set designer Lazare Meerson with whom she remained married until his death in 1938. Then she lived with the founder of the Cinémathèque française Henri Langlois . She was considered beautiful, extravagant and cosmopolitan and is said to have spoken numerous languages.

Meerson was a model for many artists. This is the case for Oskar Kokoschka, who made over fifty pictures of her in 1931.

Filmography

• 1988: Histoire (s) du cinéma: Toutes les histoires (documentation)
• 1994: Citizen Langlois (Documentation)
• 2004: Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois (documentation)

literature

• Léone Jaffin: Le Pot-au-feu de Mary Meerson , 2005, ISBN 9782729115487

Individual evidence

1. ^ Honorary President on the death of Mary Meerson, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 21, 1993, page 26
2. ↑ http://www.austrianfineart.com/index.php?cid=17&from=96&menue=6&page=catalogdetailinc&moreid=  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )
3. ↑ Henri Langois: Phantoms of the Cinematheque. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved April 22, 2020 (English). 
4. ↑ Mary Meerson in the Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 22, 2020.
5. ↑ Overview for Lazare Meerson. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved April 22, 2020 (English). 

Web links

• Mary Meerson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jonathan Dennis: Mary Meerson: "I am the Memory of the Film" ( Memento from June 30, 1997 in the Internet Archive )