Nathan Imenitoff

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Nathan Imenitoff (* 1884 in Rēzekne , Latvia , Russian Empire ; † 1965 in Boulogne-Billancourt , France ) was a French sculptor and painter .

Life

Imenitoff was of Jewish descent and emigrated with his family to the United States of America in 1899 . At the age of 15 he showed great interest in sculpture and painting. He moved to Paris in 1904 , where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts from that year . In 1906 he exhibited six of his works at the Société du Salon d'Automne .

At the Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in 1909 he showed the bust of a woman that he had carved out of solid wood. In 1918 he received French citizenship. In 1921 he settled in Boulogne-Billancourt.

Imenitoff 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 the late 1920s and early 1930s Imenitoff worked a lot with the Belgian architect Henri Lacoste, with whom he designed, among other things, the Belgian pavilion at the Paris Colonial Exhibition of 1931 and the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1935 . Much of his work was destroyed during the German occupation of France in World War II.

Work (selection)

Imenitoff's work includes numerous animal sculptures.

In 1939 he contributed to the design of a house facade on Grand Place in Tournai, Belgium with a bell relief .

Around 1950 he made a larger than life plaster candelabra in the style of Cubism , which shows a man whose four legs and three arms form a star. In 1956, as part of an international fundraising campaign for the artistic furnishings of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Imenitoff offered the candelabra with a thematic emblem for the “Union of all people” (L'Union des peuples). The work is now in the Musée municipal de Boulogne-Billancourt.

On the grounds of the former National Plastic Products Company in Odenton, Maryland, in 1961 he created a picture depicting scenes from the industrial revolution on a 12 m by 2 m wall.

Publications
  • Livre de la creation. L. Rodstein, Paris 1938.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d IMENITOFF, Nathan, Nathan Imenitoff de Rezekné, dit In: Le Delarge. Le dictionnaire des arts plastiques modern et contemporains.
  2. ^ A b Adrian M. Darmon: Around Jewish Art: A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers Carnot, 2003. ISBN 2-84855-011-2 , entry Imenitoff, Nathan on p. 317.
  3. ↑ En 2017, le Salon d'Automne, pour la deuxième fois de son histoire, accueillera un groupe de peintres russes . galeriedeparis.fr of October 3, 2017.
  4. ^ Susanna Marie Kuehl: Henri Matisse, Textile Artist Costumes Designed For The Ballets Russes Production Of Le Chant Du Rossignol, 1919/1920. P. 119
  5. ↑ Kineton Parkes: Scupture of To-Day Chapman and Hall, 1921. p. 264.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ↑ Sabine Piedboeuf: Sonnez matines . In: Pierre & Marbre, Brussels 2015. p. 18.
  8. ^ Katrin Schwarz: Building for the world community: The CIAM and the UNESCO building in Paris. Walter de Gruyter, 2016. ISBN 3-11040-406-0 , page 29. An image of the work is here to see.
  9. ↑ Ben Weathers: Future uncertain for painting at the heart of old Nevamar plant In: Maryland Gazette of February 29, 2012.
  10. ↑ Flats170. P. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Imenitoff, Nathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Imenitoff de Rezekné, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Rēzekne , Latvia , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1965
Place of death Boulogne-Billancourt , France