Maud Bonneaud

Madeleine Annette Bonneaud (born January 4, 1921 in Limoges , † November 13, 1991 in Madrid ) was a French artist. After her marriage to Óscar Domínguez in 1945 she was called Maud Domínguez, later, after her marriage to Eduardo Westerdahl in 1955, she was known as Maud Westerdahl.

Life

South France

Maud Bonneaud was born in Limoges on January 4, 1921, the daughter of the educator Adrienne Aimée L'Hotelier and her husband, the high school teacher Arsènne Theódore Bonneaud . In the course of her schooling, she attended an international school in London for some time from 1936. After graduating from high school in Limoges, she studied at the University of Poitiers from 1939 . During this time she met various representatives of surrealism (including André Breton ) who made a strong impression on her. After graduating from university in literary studies in 1941, she published articles and poems in various French newspapers and magazines.

Paris

From 1943 she lived in Paris, which was occupied by German troops at the time. She maintained contacts with the avant-garde artists who remained there, u. A. on Pablo Picasso , Dora Maar , Man Ray and Óscar Domínguez . At the beginning of 1944 her father was deported and murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp . In 1945 she married Óscar Domínguez Palazon in Paris. In that year she also began to produce smaller pictures, objects and pieces of jewelry using an enamel technique that she had developed herself . Due to the way they are made, the individual pieces are only small in size (e.g. 8 × 10 cm). By combining several pieces into one overall picture, larger pictures were created. Her work was shown in exhibitions at the Anglo-French Art Center in London as well as in Olomouc , Prague and Bratislava . Maud Bonneaud was also represented in the permanent exhibition of the Galería Dina Vierny . She made some pieces of jewelry for Christian Dior . In April of 1954 took place in the Casino Principal de Santa Cruz de Tenerife one of Eduardo Westerdahl organized solo exhibition of her work. For the opening, Maud Domínguez traveled to her husband's home in Tenerife for the first time. This exhibition was then shown in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

After her divorce from Óscar Domínguez , she married Eduardo Westerdahl Oramas on November 22, 1955 in Paris . On October 28, 1957, their son Hugo Bernardo Westerdahl Bonneaud was born.

At the end of the 1950s Maud Westerdahl stepped up again with literary activities and new pictures and objects. She wrote art reviews for various newspapers and magazines, but above all she wrote the texts for a number of exhibition catalogs of artist friends. The Westerdahl couple made various trips during which they repeatedly met Pablo Picasso.

After her husband's death in 1983, she moved to Madrid in 1987, but often spent the winter in Tenerife. Maud Westerdahl died on November 13, 1991 in Madrid.

Exhibitions

• 1956: Solo exhibition of her work at the Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos in Puerto de la Cruz
• 1959: Joint exhibition with César Manrique , Pablo Serrano and Fernando Mignoni in Madrid
• 1960: Group exhibition together with works by Tanja Tamvelius at the Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos in Puerto de la Cruz
• 1961: Solo exhibition in Madrid
• 1961: Group exhibition under the title Feria de Navidad in the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• 1962: Joint exhibition with Tanja Tamvelius at the Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos in Puerto de la Cruz
• 1962: Group exhibition under the title Feria de Navidad in the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• 1963: Solo exhibition in the Sala del Prado del Ateneo in Madrid
• 1965: Joint exhibition Las Doce with paintings, sculptures, tapestries and enamel work in the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and in the Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos in Puerto de la Cruz
• 1967: Joint exhibition VIII Exposición Regional de Pintura y Escultura (8th regional exhibition for painting and sculpture) in the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• 1969: Memorial exhibition for Miguel Tarquis in the Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• 1970: Solo exhibition works in the Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• 1972: Exhibition in honor of José Luis Sert in the exhibition rooms of the Chamber of Architects in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• 1972: Esmaltes solo exhibition of her latest work in the Sala Conca in La Laguna
• 1973: Exhibition in honor of Manolo Millares in the Galería Juana Mordó in Madrid
• 1974: Exhibition of works at the Muestra de Artes Plásticas de Baracaldo
• 1976: Group exhibition of Canarian artists
• 1977: Group exhibition in honor of Pablo Picasso in the Galería Balos in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• 1980: Last solo exhibition under the title Fabulario in the Galería Rodin in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• 1987: Exhibition in honor of Maud Westerdahl in the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife
• 2005: Memorial exhibition to Maud and Eduardo Westerdahl

Web links

• Maud Bonneaud Westerdahl. Gaviño de Franchi, Editores, February 2, 2011, accessed April 13, 2012 (Spanish). 

• Maud Westerdahl. Los Amigos (1). Gaviño de Franchi, Editores, February 1, 2011, accessed April 16, 2012 (Spanish). 

• Maud Westerdahl. Los Amigos (2). Gaviño de Franchi, Editores, February 2, 2011, accessed April 13, 2012 (Spanish). 

• Westerdahl, Maud. Bonneaud, Madeleine. In: diccionario de artistas. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno CAAM, 2011, accessed April 13, 2012 (Spanish). 

literature

• Pilar Carreño Corbella: Eduardo Westerdahl: suma de la existencia . Instituto Óscar Domíngez de Arte y Cultura Contemporánea, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2002, ISBN 84-87340-63-6 , p. 205 (Spanish).

• Fernando Castro Borrego, Ángel Mollá Román: Eduardo Y Maud Westerdahl. 2 Miradas Del Siglo 20 . Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2005, ISBN 978-84-89152-75-5 (Spanish, exhibition catalog).

• Manuel Hernández González: Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos de Canarias 1953-2002 . Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos de Canarias, Puerto de la Cruz 2003, ISBN 84-607-6483-4 , p. 155 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maud Bonneaud Westerdahl. Gaviño de Franchi, Editores, February 2, 2011, accessed April 13, 2012 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ Mort en déportation. République Française, Le service public de la diffusion du droit, accessed on April 15, 2012 (French). 
3. ↑ Maud Bonneaud Westerdahl. Gaviño de Franchi, Editores, February 2, 2011, accessed April 13, 2012 (Spanish). 
4. ↑ Manuel Hernández González: Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos de Canarias 1953-2002 . Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos de Canarias, Puerto de la Cruz 2003, ISBN 84-607-6483-4 , p. 52 .
5. ↑ Westerdahl, Maud. Bonneaud, Madeleine. diccionario de, Retrieved April 13, 2012 (Spanish). 
6. ↑ Fernando Castro Borrego, Ángel Mollá Román: Eduardo y maud westerdahl: 2 miradas del siglo 20. 30 de juno de 2005 al 21 de agosto de 2005. (No longer available online.) Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno CAAM, 2005, archived from Original on June 21, 2012 ; Retrieved April 6, 2012 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.