Max Blondat

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Max Blondat
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Maximilien Blondat (born September 3, 1872 in Crain , Yonne department , † November 17, 1925 in Paris ) was a French sculptor of Art Nouveau and Art Deco .

Life

Max Blondat was the son of master cooper Alexandre Blondat (29 years old when his son was born) and his wife Philippine Lazarine Henry (23 years old when their son was born). Blondat studied from 1889 at the École Germain Pilon and from 1892 at the École des beaux-arts de Paris , where he signed his first works with the maternal surname Henry . He was a student of Mathurin Moreau and Charles Valton .

In 1906 Blondat was one of the founding members of the Société des arts décoratifs français . He was mobilized in 1914 and served during the First World War in the Service du camouflage , the "camouflage service" of the French army; an artist group called Les Caméléons ( German  the chameleons ). From 1919 he directed the art school in Dijon. He also belonged to the artist group La Stèle , founded by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) and sculptor Arthur Goldscheider in the early 1920s , whose work Goldscheider exhibited in 1925 at the Paris Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern .

On November 4, 1918, Blondat married Georgette Giraud in Paris. This connection had three daughters. On November 17, 1925 died at a Blondat sepsis . He was laid to rest in Crain.

Works (selection)

In Blondat's best-known work La Fontaine aux Grenouilles ( Frog Fountain ) or Fontaine de jeunesse ( Fountain of Youth ), three children sit on a rock and watch three frogs play with great pleasure. Some reproductions or variations of this work have been made to decorate public spaces and gardens, according to the

  • Fairy tale fountain in the court garden of Düsseldorf , in bronze
  • Fairy tale fountain or youth fountain in Wollishofen , Zurich , in bronze, 1905
  • La Fontaine aux Grenouilles on Place Darcy in Dijon , in bronze
  • Діти і жабеня ( Children and Toad ) on the Theater Square in Odessa , in marble
  • Children's Fountain ( Kinderbrunnen ) or Dusseldorf Fountain ( Düsseldorf-Brunnen ) in City Park of Denver, Colorado, in marble and bronze, 1913
  • Versions of the Fontaine aux Grenouilles / Fontaine de jeunesse

  • Märchenbrunnen, Düsseldorf

  • Youth fountain, Zurich

  • La Fontaine aux Grenouilles, Dijon

  • Діти і жабеня, Odessa

  • Children's Fountain, Denver

In the 1900s, Blondat became known for the scaled-down versions of many of his sculptures, which often had women's or children's nudes in the Art Nouveau style, but also with decorative art such as hood ornaments, clocks, ashtrays, salieres and other utensils in the Art Deco style. He worked with materials such as wood, stone, terracotta, glass and bronze, which he often gilded. In the production of ceramics he worked with Edmond Lachenal and the Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres , in his wrought iron work with the art blacksmith Edgar Brandt , in his castings with the foundries Edmond Siot-Decauville , Valsuani and Max Le Verrier as well as in his jewelry designs with Hermès .

After the First World War , Blondat made nine memorials for the dead of the war:

Exhibitions (selection)

  • L'Amour endormi from 1910

  • L'Equilibre from 1925

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Max Blondat  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Max Blondat (1872–1925) In: reseaudescommunes.fr
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Max Blondat 1872–1925. French, Fontaine aux Grenouilles, also known as Fontaine de jeunesse. In: Sotheby’s
  3. ↑ a b c Max Blondat (1872–1925), Atlas. In: Gazette Drouot, Hôtel Drouot
  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 .
  5. ↑ New shine for fairytale fountains. In: Rheinische Post . May 5, 2014.
  6. ↑ Well guide district 2 . In: stadt-zuerich.ch
  7. ↑ Фонтан «Дети и лягушка» . In: histodessa.ru
  8. ^ Children's Fountain - City Park, Denver, Colorado . In: waymarking.com
  9. ↑ a b c d e Josiane Maxel: Max Blondat, sculpteur venu de l'Yonne . La Gazette 89 Editions, ISBN 978-2-916600-02-4 , 24 pp.
  10. ↑ Max Blondat (French, 1879-1926). Enfants et Grenouilles inkwell. In: artinfo.com
  11. ^ Jean Laran: La sculpture aux Salons, Art et Décoration. June 1907, p. 197.
  12. ↑ a b Max Blondat . Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011.
  13. ↑ Exposition Blondat, Max. Beauvais 1979 . In: Catalog of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  14. ↑ LH / 259/27, Blondat, Maximilien. In: Base Léonore
  15. ↑ Rue Max Blondat in Auxerre . In: Google Maps
  16. ↑ Rue Max Blondat in Boulogne-Billancourt. In: Google Maps
personal data
SURNAME Blondat, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blondat, Maximilien (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor of Art Nouveau and Art Deco
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Crain , Yonne department , France
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1925
Place of death Paris , France