Misia Sert
Misia Sert (born March 30, 1872 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire as Marie Sophie Olga Zénaïde Godebska ; † October 15, 1950 in Paris ) was the muse , friend and supporter of numerous well-known artists in Paris during the first half of the 20th century .
Life
She was born under the name Marie Sophie Godebska in St. Petersburg. Her father was the Polish sculptor Cyprian Godebski , her mother Sofia was the daughter of the Belgian cellist Adrien-François Servais . Since the mother died in childbirth, she first spent her childhood with her grandmother, Sophie, née. Féguine, near Brussels . Even here, as a small child, she got to know many artists and, musically gifted, received piano lessons.
With her father and his new wife, Matylda, geb. Rosen de la Frenaye, she finally came to Paris and was housed for several years in the monastery of Sacré-Cœur, from whose confines she fled to London at the age of 14 . A short time later she returned to Paris and married Tadeusz Natanson at the age of 15 .
Now she found again what she had got to know from her grandmother: an open house for artists. Her circle of friends included u. a. the painters Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Pierre Bonnard , later also Pablo Picasso . She made the acquaintance of the writers Émile Zola , Marcel Proust , André Gide and Jean Cocteau , with the singer Enrico Caruso , with the musicians Claude Debussy , Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky . Further friendships with artists from the world of theater, ballet and fashion followed. B. with Coco Chanel .
Misia Sert was a close friend of Serge Diaghilev and was involved in all creative aspects of Ballets Russes , from friendship with the dancers to ideas for costume designs and choreography. Over the years she often made funds available for the financially troubled ballet company. When Diaghilev was dying in August 1929, she was by his side and, along with Coco Chanel , paid for his funeral.
In 1905 she married a second time, namely the millionaire Alfred Edwards . Misia Sert found her fulfillment from 1908 as a mistress and from 1920 in her third marriage to Josep Maria Sert , a leading painter of the Spanish art scene, who in turn married the Georgian Isabelle Roussadana Mdiwani in 1927 with her consent . After his death in 1945 she withdrew more and more from social life and died on October 15, 1950 in Paris.
It was immortalized in novels by Proust and Cocteau, on a poster by Toulouse-Lautrec for the magazine La Revue blanche and on some oil paintings by Renoir, Félix Vallotton and Édouard Vuillard . Ravel dedicated La Valse to her .
literature
- Misia Sert: Misia. Par Misia Sert. Gallimard Paris 1952
- Arthur Gold, Robert Fizdale: Misia. Muse, patroness, model. The unusual life of Misia Sert. German by Jürgen Abel. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-10361-4 ( Fischer-Taschenbucher 10361)
- Alex-Ceslas Rzewuski : La Double tragédie de Misia Sert. Éditions du Cerf, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-204-07863-8
- Susanne Buck: murderer, fashion, dowry hunter. Jonas Verlag, Weimar 2019, ISBN 978-3894455682
- Misia Sert: Parisian memories. Translated from the French by Hedwig Andertann. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-01681-4 (Volume 681 of the Suhrkamp Library )
Web links
- Literature by and about Misia Sert in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sert, Misia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Godebska, Marie (maiden name); Natanson, Marie (married name); Edwards, Marie (married name); Sert, Marie (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Art patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1950 |
| Place of death | Paris |