Oscar Roty
Louis Oscar Roty (born June 11, 1846 in Paris , † March 23, 1911 ibid) was a French medalist who was one of the most famous medalists in France. In particular, his wedding - medal as well as his motif of the sower were again and again by the Paris Mint , the Monnaie de Paris , or on Stamps restamped.
Life
Born in 1846, Oscar Roty dreamed of becoming a famous painter as a child. However, after he had lost a 10 franc gold piece entrusted to him to purchase painting materials, he decided to become an engraver . Roty attended the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs with Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris with Auguste Dumont and Hubert Ponscarme , through which he received a basic classical training in drawing , as a modeler, sculptor and engraver. But the beginning of his career proved difficult.
Roty was able to win the Prix de Rome in engraving in 1875 , but in 1878 he married Marie , the daughter of the Parisian blacksmith Pierre François Marie Boulanger , who redesigned the door wings of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral according to plans by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , but at first Roty had few well-to-do customers, gave drawing lessons wherever possible, but was often dependent on financial support from his father-in-law. Roty initially achieved gradual success through his character traits such as sincerity and clarity, his unaffected politeness and his own comedy, which cheered up important personalities in Rome and Paris, earned him sympathy and friendships and finally opened doors.
Roty took part in other competitions, took on sculpture commissions for the Paris City Hall , for example, and exhibited his early works at all kinds of exhibitions . This is how he became known, the handwriting of his work was recognized, and he gradually made a name for himself. In 1888, at the age of 42, he was the youngest member of his age to have a seat in the Paris Académie des Beaux-Arts . Even if Roty's father still could not believe in his son's artistic success at the time, the early works of Oscar Roty, which have been preserved in the museum named after him, prove the technical formulations of what is to be depicted with few details on ever smaller surfaces . This is shown, for example, by the plaque "Femme à sa toilette" (German for "Woman at her morning toilet") from around 1878 - Roty was back in Rome , one of the earliest known works with Roty's signature , through which the artist, typical for him, anecdotally depicts what has been seen in an almost impressionistically reduced environment: a bare back, the legs barely covered by a falling cloth, a graceful but natural pose, a sink. The surroundings are reduced in an almost impressionistic way , a relief on a flat plane.
Around 1896 Roty was the then eleven-year old from Italy coming Rosalinda Pesce , who with her parents in Paris Quartier Montparnasse lived model for one of the works should be famous by the Oscar Roty. His motif La Semeuse (the sower ) has been used repeatedly on official stamps and coins since 1998.
Postage stamp “La Semeuse” (the sower); Double signed by Roty and Louis Eugène Mouchon
and hatched in green against the rising sun
The 11-year-old Italian Rosalinda Pesce around 1896 in the (later) Museum Musee Oscar Roty
In 1900 Oskar Roty became Commandeur of the Legion of Honor .
Other works
Medals
Construction of the Panama Canal , 1881, two Neptunes shake hands
International Exhibition of Electricity , 1881
Inauguration of the Algiers - Constantinople railway line by the Compagnie de l'Est algérien , 1886
Patriotic Rifle Medal , 1889
World's Columbian Exposition 1893 in Chicago
Anniversary 100 years of the Banque de France , 1900
literature
- Georges Roty: Le médailleur Louis Oscar Roty (1846–1911) sa vie son œuvre, Presses du Compagnonnage , 1971
- Bénézit . Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , 3rd edition, Vol. 9, 1976, p. 123.
- Ferdinand Dahl: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , Part 3 (= Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde eV , Volume 93). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2014, p. 20 (with numerous illustrations); PDF file ( Memento of April 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
- General artist lexicon online .
Web links
- oscar-roty.fr Website of the Oscar Roty Foundation
- Works by Roty in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
- PM Chantereau: Louis Oscar Roty (1846-1911). Un graveur dans la République ( Memento of February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (French), by the curator of the Musée Oscar Roty with numerous illustrations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ferdinand Dahl inadvertently gave 1848 as the year of birth.
- ↑ a b c d Ferdinand Dahl: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , Part 3 (= Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde eV , volume 93). Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2014, p. 20.
- ↑ a b c d e f g P. M. Chantereau: Louis Oscar Roty ... (see literature)
- ^ Oskar Roty (French) on the website of the Fondation et Musee Oscar Roty .
- ↑ a b Le Musée Oscar Roty ( Memento from September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Roty, Oscar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roty, Louis Oscar (full name); Roty, Luigi Oscar (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor, draftsman, engraver and medalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1846 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1911 |
Place of death | Paris |