Paul Grandhomme

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Paul Grandhomme, Portrait of Raphaël Collin (before 1890)

Paul Victor Grandhomme (born July 23, 1851 in Paris , † 1944 in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer , Département Ille-et-Vilaine ) was a French enamel painter , sculptor and medalist .

Life

Grandhomme began his artistic career as a jewelry dealer ( goldsmith ). When the Franco-German War broke out , he had to close his workshop. He stayed in Épernay for some time . Inspired by reading Claudius Popelin's book L'Email des peintres , he became involved in enamel painting. After his return to Paris, he worked for a goldsmith, in his free time he learned a lot about painting and melting techniques from an enameller. Thereby he made the acquaintance of the goldsmith Mollard, who used to work as an enamel artist himself. He made his furnace available to Grandhomme and passed on his knowledge to him. In 1874 an enamel picture of him was exhibited in the salon of the Société des Artistes Français , on which Vittoria Colonna could be seen. He then worked for Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Jules-Élie Delaunay and received new inspiration from his friend, the painter Raphaël Collin . Grandhomme made his enamel works from his own drawings, portraits or templates. Alfred-Jean Garnier first became his pupil in 1877, the following year they joined forces as partners and worked and signed together for some time until they separated again. Some of his works are in the holdings of the Musée d'Orsay .

medal

Medal created by Grandhomme

He created his own Art Nouveau medal to advertise rearmament for the First World War .

The medal shows on the obverse a Française sitting on a cannon with her arm around a young soldier and the legend SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLVM at the top, in the section PRO PATRIA at the bottom . On the lapel you can see a lion in front of a memorial stone with a legend: PRIX du MINISTRE da la GUERRE , over it military aircraft, above: ENTRAINEMENT PHYSIQUE PREPARATION MILITAIRE , below in the FORCE COURAGE section .

The diameter of this silver medal is 50 mm, its weight is 60.7 g.

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Grandhomme  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grandhomme, Paul . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 505-506 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Works by Grandhomme, Paul in the Musée d'Orsay.
personal data
SURNAME Grandhomme, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grandhomme, Paul Victor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French enamel painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1944
Place of death Saint-Briac-sur-Mer , Ille-et-Vilaine department