Pere Tanguy

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Portrait of Père Tanguy in Breton costume in front of a collection of Japanese prints , painting by Vincent van Gogh (1887), Musée Rodin , Paris

Julien François Tanguy , called Père Tanguy , (born June 28, 1825 in Plédran , Bretagne , † February 6, 1894 in Paris ) was a French paint dealer, gallery owner, art collector and patron, who was one of the first buyers of Impressionist paintings. He played an important role in promoting impressionism and post-impressionism .

Live and act

Julien Tanguy started out as a plasterer and carried out other activities before becoming an independent paint dealer. On April 23, 1855, he married Renée Briend, born in Hillion, in Saint-Brieuc . In 1860 the couple moved to Paris. Tanguy opened an outpatient shop in 1868 and sold his paints in Barbizon and Argenteuil, for example . He was as communard in the struggles of the Paris Commune involved from 1871, was captured but was released at the instigation of friends. In 1873 he opened an art supplies shop in Paris at 14, rue Clauzel. There he sold his paints to the artists and provided them with meals if necessary. He partially took her pictures against the delivery of material on commission in order to be able to sell them on occasion. In June 1891 the gallery moved to the address 9, rue Clauzel.

Émile Bernard: Portrait of Père Tanguy (1887)

As a fatherly friend, “Père Tanguy” counted among his customers the art collectors Paul Gachet and Victor Chocquet , the painters Camille Pissarro , Claude Monet , Auguste Renoir , Paul Gauguin , Armand Guillaumin , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Vincent van Gogh , Paul Cézanne and Victor Vignon , whose pictures he exhibited and sold. Artists and art collectors interested in the Impressionist movement, and later in the work of Paul Cézanne, visited his collection in the small gallery attached to the art supply store. The painter and writer Émile Bernard described Tanguy's gallery as the birthplace of symbolism and the Pont-Aven school . In 1887 he created a portrait of the gallery owner.

Paul Cézanne found particular support from Tanguy. Initially, he was the only contact person for Cézanne in Paris. Tanguy gave him credit and presented his pictures to an affluent audience and other artists. The acquisitions of Cézanne's work spanned the years 1873 to 1885. Among the paintings by Cézanne that Tanguy owned was the portrait of Achille Emperaire , currently in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay .

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Vincent van Gogh's portraits of Tanguy
Left: Le Père Tanguy painted as a paint dealer with an apron (1886/87), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek , Copenhagen
Right: The second portrait of Père Tanguy (1887), owned by Stavros Niarchos

Vincent van Gogh, who had left the Netherlands and had been with his brother Theo in Paris since March 1886 , created three portraits of the paint dealer and gallery owner. The first picture shows him as a paint dealer, the following two show Van Gogh's fondness for Japonism , recognizable by the Japanese prints in the background. The last picture he created can be seen in the introduction. The sculptor Auguste Rodin acquired it from the estate in 1894. It is currently in the collection of the Rodin Museum .

After his death, Octave Mirbeau honored the patron in L'Écho de Paris on February 13, 1894. On June 2, 1894, painters friends, at the suggestion of Mirbeau, auctioned their own works, the proceeds of which were intended for the livelihood of his widow, in the Hôtel Drouot . The auction raised 10,000 francs. The young gallery owner Ambroise Vollard bought pictures by the then almost unknown painters Cézanne, Gauguin and van Gogh from the estate, which enabled him to exhibit a Cézanne retrospective a year later. It made Cézanne famous, and success enabled Vollard to move to a larger gallery in 1896.

More than a hundred years after Tanguy's death, a gallery dedicated to Japanese art opened in 2007 at the same location under the name “Père Tanguy”.

literature

  • Émile Bernard: Julien Tanguy, dit le “père Tanguy” . Mercure de France , December 16, 1908 (online) , reprinted in part by L'Échoppe , Paris 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernard 1908, pp. 600-608.
  2. ↑ Quote according to illustration
  3. ↑ Bernard 1908, p. 614.
  4. ^ Wayne V. Andersen: Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet. jstor.org, accessed September 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ Paul Cézanne: Achille Emperaire , musee-orsay.fr, accessed on September 18, 2013.
  6. ↑ Quoted from the web link of the Musée Rodin
  7. ↑ Octave Mirbeau: Le père Tanguy. L'Écho de Paris , February 13, 1894 (online) , reprinted in 1993 in Combats esthétiques , Nouvelles Éditions Séguier, Paris
  8. ↑ Bernard 1908, p. 614.
  9. ↑ Michael Kimmelmann: The Merchant of Modernism , travel.nytimes.com, September 15, 2006, accessed September 5, 2013.
  10. ↑ Ambroise Vollard, Champion of the Avant-garde , musee-orsay.fr, accessed September 5, 2013.
  11. ↑ La Galerie du Père Tanguy et ses estampes japonaises , avroche-pere-et-fils.fr, accessed on September 5, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Tanguy, Pere
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanguy, Julien François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French paint dealer, gallery owner, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Plédran , Brittany
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1894
Place of death Paris