Paul Matisse

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Paul Matisse (* 1933 in New York ) is an American artist and inventor. He is particularly known for his installations , some of which are interactive . He is the inventor of the calliroscope .

life and work

Paul Matisse is the son of Pierre Matisse and Alexina "Teeny" Matisse , née Sattler, who was second married to Marcel Duchamp , and the grandson of the French painter Henri Matisse . In 1954, Paul Matisse graduated from Harvard University, where he lived in Eliot House with Stephen Joyce , the grandson of James Joyce, and Sadruddin Aga Khan . After college, he briefly studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design before joining Arthur D. Little in product development .

On December 27, 1958, Matisse married Sarah Barret. The wedding Duchamp gave his stepson as an art object Waistcoat , a vest made of green wool, on the five buttons in mirror writing Sally could read her pet name. In 1962 Matisse went into business for himself and made calliroscopes . In 1965 his daughter Sophie was born. In 1968, after Duchamp's death, he arranged his extensive estate and translated and published a large number of notes into English. On behalf of the Philadelphia Museum, he reconstructed a posthumously discovered and at the time quite shocking Duchamp masterpiece, Etant Donné . Like his stepfather, who set the traditional art scene in motion with ready-mades , Paul Matisse is also fascinated by kinetic art.

From 1977 to 1979 Matisse helped Alexander Calder create a sculpture for the National Gallery of Art in Washington . After that his artistic career began.

He currently resides in a former Baptist church in Groton, Massachusetts .

Works (selection)

Charlestown Bells (2000)
  • Memorial Bell for the "National Japanese-American Memorial to Patriotism" in Washington (2001)
  • Charlestown Bells (2000), an interactive musical sculpture on the Charles River Dam between Boston and the Charlestown neighborhood
  • Kendall Band (1987), an interactive musical sculpture in a subway station in Cambridge , Massachusetts
  • Musical Fence (1980), an interactive musical sculpture formerly displayed in Cambridge Massachusetts and now displayed at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts and the Science Museum in Vermont .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopher Reed, Pure Fabrications , Harvard Magazine , May – June 2002.
  2. ↑ Cora von Pape: art clothes. transcript-verlag, accessed April 15, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Hella Boschmann: A Matisse who makes the bells ring. welt.de, August 20, 2002, accessed April 15, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Matisse, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH new York