Paul Facchetti

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Paul Facchetti in his Paris apartment

Paul Facchetti (born September 1, 1912 in Coccaglio near Brescia , † November 27, 2010 in Joigny ) was an Italian-French photographer and art dealer in Paris.

biography

Paul Facchetti was, on the one hand, a well-known French photographer and , on the other hand, an art dealer in Paris who, since 1951, has offered numerous young artists a platform for their works of art. As a photographer, he developed a high level of awareness in connection with his preferred subjective photography as well as portraits of writers and artists he met, such as Henri Michaux , Truman Capote , Salvador Dali , Jean Fautrier , Jean Dubuffet and Jean Paulhan . In October 1951 he turned his photo studio into a contemporary art gallery and named it Studio Paul Facchetti. His first exhibitions in 1951 and 1952 caused a stir internationally. He was the first gallery in Europe to show works by Jackson Pollock and was known for having discovered and promoted many painters of lyrical abstraction , informal art , tachism and abstract expressionism . Michel Tapié was one of his most important advisors when he started the gallery. Other consultants in the 50s to 70s were Alfonso Ossorio , Rudi Baerwind , Carola Giedion-Welcker , Georges Mathieu , Jacques Lassaigne and Alain Jouffroy.

One of his sons is the French painter Jean-Paul Agosti. Parts of Facchetti's archive are in the Archives - Bibliothèque Kandinsky - Center Pompidou , other documents are with his son Jean-Paul.

Paul Facchetti Studio and Gallery

The first exhibition at Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris took place in 1951. One of his discoveries at the time was Alfonso Ossorio (Alfonso Angel Yangco Ossorio 1916-1990), an Abstract Expressionist painter , born in Manila and moved to the USA at the age of 14. In November of the same year, Facchetti hosted the exhibition entitled “Signifiants de l'informel”, organized by the art critic Michel Tapié, which defined and published the name “art informel” ( informal art ). Thanks to the mediation of Ossorio, a close friend of Pollock and Michel Tapié, Facchetti succeeded on March 7, 1952 in realizing the first exhibition of Pollock's works from 1948 to 1951 in his studio. This was followed by Michel Tapié's famous exhibition, Un art autre , in late 1952. In the next few years, Facchetti showed works by Zoltan Kémeny , Jean Dubuffet , Henri Michaux , Wols , Georges Mathieu , Karel Appel , Georges Noël , François Stahly , Bernard Schultze , Friedrich Hundertwasser , René Laubiès and Ger Lataster . In 1954 Facchetti published the magazine "phases" and presented it in the same year together with an exhibition in which drawings by Karl Otto Götz and Otto Greis could also be seen. In 1956 Facchetti began the thematic exhibition series »Interferences«, in which works by Peter Brüning were also shown. At the end of the 1950s Facchetti changed the name Galerie Studio Paul Facchetti in connection with the exhibition 10 ans d'activité: Galerie Paul Facchetti the name to Galerie Paul Facchetti. Its activities have now been noticed more in Europe. This was followed by solo and group exhibitions with the painters and sculptors that mark the departure of the informal, Tachism, the Lyric abstraction and the abstract expressionism that time: Karel Appel, Georges Mathieu, Jaroslav Serpan , Theodore Appleby, Francois Arnal, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis , Paul Jenkins , Zoltán Kemény, Alexandre Istrati , Natalia Dumitresco , Jeanne Laganne, Ger Lataster, Jean Messagier , Jean-Paul Riopelle and Pierre Wemaëre.

Through the Mannheim painter Rudi Baerwind , Facchetti met the young Mannheim gallery owner Margarete Lauter in 1962 in the La Coupole restaurant in Paris . Since then, the two art dealers have been on friendly terms and Facchetti supported Lauter with the opening of her gallery in 1963 and with numerous exhibitions in the 1960s and 1990s. Works from the Facchetti Gallery by Ung-No Lee , Georges Noël, Rudi Baerwind, Ger Lataster and Zoltan Kemeny were shown. At the beginning of the 1970s Facchetti opened his second gallery in Zurich, which he closed again after a few years with little success. During this time, new young artists joined the gallery program, such as Alekos Fassianos , Joseph Sima , René Acht , Shirley Goldfarb, Ronaldo de Juan, Egon Karl Nicolaus or Walter Schmögner . With the Schmögner exhibition, Facchetti ended his official gallery work in Zurich (1980) and in Paris in the same year and worked as an art dealer until the last years of his life.

Exhibitions as a photographer

  • Galerie La Hune, joint exhibition with the photographers Boubat, Brassaï, Doineau and Izis, curated by Robert Delpire, editor of Neuf magazine , Paris 1951.
  • Paul Facchetti, Nus exotiques , société parisienne d'édition artistiques, Paris 1952.
  • André Fraigneau, Photographies de Paul Facchetti , Venise , Couleurs du monde, Ed. Del Duca, Venice 1953.
  • Collectif , Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris 1956.
  • Ellen Handy, Paul Facchetti. Portraits d'artistes: photographs of artists working in Paris in the 1950's . Exhibition held at Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 2-25, 1989. ISBN 9781878344021 .
  • Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Traits singuliers. Portraits de Paul Facchetti , A une soie , Paris 1993. ISBN 9782950737014 .
  • Frédérique Villemur, La Méridienne de Paris: une nouvelle traversée de la capitale (with photographs by Paul Facchetti), Musées Actes Sud, Paris 2000.
  • Frédérique Villemur, Paul Facchetti, photographe , Actes Sud, Paris 2007.
  • Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles 2008.

Exhibitions of the gallery

  • Alfonso Ossorio, Michel Tapié, Jackson Pollock , Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1952 OCLC: 30601793.
  • Michel Tapié, Un art autre , Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris 1952.
  • Paul Facchetti, Stahly , textes de Jean Arp, Henri-Pierre Roché et François Stahly (carnets de notes), collection Arts naissants, 1953.
  • Carola Giedion Welcker, Zoltan Kemeny: sculptures , Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris 1955.
  • Christian Dotremont, Pierre Wemaëre, peintures , Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris 1957.
  • Zoltan Kemeny , Galerie Paul Facchetti, November 20, 1959, Paris 1959.
  • René Acht , Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris 1959.
  • Jean Fautrier, Georges Mathieu, 10 ans d'activité: Galerie Paul Facchetti , œuvres de Fautrier, Michaux, Dubuffet, Riopelle, Mathieu ..., Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris 1959.
  • Giuseppe Marchiori, Œuvres récentes de Zoltan Kemeny , Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris 1961.
  • Georges Noël : Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris 1961.
  • Jacques Lassaigne, Ung-No Lee , Paul Facchetti Gallery, Paris 1962.
  • René Laubiès , Paul Facchetti Gallery, Paris 1964.
  • Ger Lataster , Paul Facchetti Gallery, Paris 1971.
  • Claude Lalanne; François Xavier Lalanne; Manuel Gasser, Les Lalanne: sculptures, objets nobles, bijoux , Galerie Paul Facchetti, December 14, 1971 - January 31, 1972.
  • Rolf-Gunter Dienst - Pictures : Galerie Paul Facchetti, Zurich, 04.07. - 16.09.1972.
  • Jeanne et Paul Facchetti, Lataster , Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, December 7, 1973 - January 30, 1974.
  • Jeanne et Paul Facchetti, Hundertwasser , Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris 1975.
  • Pierre Restany, Erich Brauer: huiles, gouaches, aquarelles , Galerie Paul Facchetti, 6 rue des Saints Pères, Paris, May - June 1976.
  • Alain Jouffroy, La Regard mental. Recalcati. Takis. Pommereulle. Groves. Kowalski. Télémaque. Quentin. Dufrêne. Erro. Paul Facchetti Gallery, Paris, 1976.

Web links

literature

  • Michel Tapié, Signifiants de l'informel , Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris 1951.
  • Alfonso Ossorio, Michel Tapié, Jackson Pollock , Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1952 OCLC: 30601793.
  • Michel Tapié, Un art autre: où il s'agit de nouveaux dávilages du réel , Paris: Gabriel-Giraud et fils, 1952.
  • Paul Facchetti, Nus exotiques , société parisienne d'édition artistiques, 1952.
  • André Fraigneau, photographies de Paul Facchetti , Venise , Couleurs du monde, Paris 1951. results
  • Frédérique Villemur, B. Pietrzak, Paul Facchetti: Le Studio. Art informel et abstraction lyrique , Actes Sud, Paris 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ At 17, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris.
  2. ↑ Michel Tapié: Michel Tapie. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Jean-Paul AGOSTINETTO Artist Painter France. Retrieved February 23, 2020 (UK English).
  4. ^ Studio Paul Facchetti. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  5. ^ Frédérique Villemur, Brigitte Pietrzak: Paul Facchetti, le studio: art informel et abstraction lyrique . Actes sud, Arles 2004, ISBN 978-2-7427-4773-3 ( worldcat.org [accessed March 8, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Michel Tapié, Signifiants de l'informel , Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris 1951.
  7. ↑ Michel Tapié. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Alfonso Ossorio, Michel Tapié, Pollock , Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1952 OCLC: 30601793. results
  9. ↑ Michel Tapié, Un art autre , Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris 1952. results
  10. ^ Mathieu and Tapié, 1948-1958: A Decade of Adventure. Retrieved May 19, 2020 (American English).
  11. ↑ PeterBruening.de ›Biography. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  12. ^ Jean Fautrier, Georges Mathieu: 10 ans d'activité: Galerie Paul Facchetti. OEuvres de Fautrier, Michaux, Dubuffet, Riopelle, Mathieu ... La Galerie Facchetti, Paris 1959 ( worldcat.org [accessed March 8, 2020]).
  13. ↑ Galerie Paul Facchetti. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ La Coupole / Restaurant / PARIS. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Abendschau from November 22nd, 1963, swr.de: The Margarete Lauter gallery was opened in Mannheim in the presence of the well-known Parisian art dealer Paul Facchetti . [1]
  16. ↑ WorldCat Identities [2]
personal data
SURNAME Facchetti, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-French photographer and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Brescia
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2010
Place of death Joigny