Paul Moreau-Vauthier

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Paul Moreau-Vauthier

Gabriel Jean Paul Moreau-Vauthier (born November 28, 1871 in Paris , France , † February 2, 1936 in Iteuil near Poitiers , France) was a French sculptor .

Life

He was the son of the sculptor Augustin-Jean Moreau-Vauthier and Marie Louise Suzanne Vauthier. His brother Charles Moreau-Vauthier was a painter and writer, his sister Madeleine Moreau-Vauthier was married to the sculptor Ernest Dagonet . Moreau-Vauthier was the pupil of his father and Jules Thomas. He exhibited for the first time at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 with his statue La Parisienne .

As a soldier in the First World War , Moreau-Vauthier had seen the Battle of Verdun in 1916. He became famous for his memorial wall for the victims of the Revolution (Mur des Fédérés) on Avenue Gambetta in Paris. He also created an allegorical work to commemorate Louis Blériot's first flight across the English Channel in 1909.

Inauguration of a marking bollard in Château-Thierry , 1921

In 1920 Moreau-Vauthier developed the idea of ​​installing a series of stone sculptures as marking bollards along the 650 km long front from Nieuwpoort, Belgium via Moosch near Altkirch to the French-Swiss border in memory of the dead of World War I. He presented his first model in Paris that year; Henri Defert, President of the Touring Club of France, supported his idea and invited the Belgian Touring Club to join this project as well. A total of 240 markers were planned (28 in Belgium, 212 in France), 118 of which were erected between 1921 and 1927 (22 in Belgium, 96 in France). The three basic designs differ mainly in the army affiliation of the helmets (French, Belgian or British) that covered the milestones. The bollards show infantry equipment such as water bottles, hand grenades, etc. as side decorations. Many of these “front bollards” still exist today.

Moreau-Vauthier was one of the of the art d'Éditeur (art publisher) and image founders Arthur Goldscheider in the early 1920s with representatives of the Art Deco founded art group La Stèle , whose work Goldscheider in 1925 at the Paris International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts exhibited . In 1932 he took part in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the discipline Mixed Sculpturing .

In 1936 Moreau-Vauthier died in a car accident and was laid to rest in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris .

Publications

  • La Doctrine de guerre du général Douhet. Berger-Levrault, Paris 1935.
  • Un boss. Le Général Mangin 1866–1925. Charles-Lavauzelle, Limoges 1936.

Works (selection)

  • La Premier Parure , ca.1900
  • Toréador de Séville , 1909, Musée d'Orsay
  • Monseigneur Lacroix , 1919, Musée d'Orsay
  • Le Mur des fédérés , 1906–1909

  • Bollard at Fort de la Pompelle near Reims , picture from 2010.

  • Armée noire , Reims, 1924. Destroyed by the German occupiers in September 1940 .

  • Monument fédérés on Place Samuel de Champlain, along the Père Lachaise cemetery. Picture from 2004.

  • Monument on Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, Yvetot , from 1923.

  • Madame Boucicaut et Baroness Clara de Hirsh , Place Boucicaut, Paris, from 1914.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Moreau-Vauthier, Paul (1871-1936). In: Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. ↑ Une Famille d'Artistes Bourronais. Les Moreau-Vauthier. ( Memento from September 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Ernest Dagonet . In: Musée d'Orsay
  4. ↑ Data sheet Moreau-Vauthier, Gabriel Jean Paul. In: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
  5. ^ A b c Moreau-Vauthier, Paul, Paul (1871-1936), Sculptor . In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs.
  6. ↑ 1914–1918 Demarcation Stone Monuments on the Western Front . In: greatwar.co.uk
  7. ^ Borne du Front - Paul Moreau-Vauthier à Fleury-devant-Douaumont . In: petit-patrimoine.com
  8. ↑ Moreau-Vauthier, Paul . In: De inventoryis van het Onroerend Erfgoed
  9. ^ Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , 640 pp.
  10. ^ Gabriel Jean Paul Moreau-Vauthier. In: sports-reference.com
  11. ^ Moreau-Vauthier, Paul (1871-1936). 14eme division (1st line, W, 24). In: Association des Amis et Passionnés du Père-Lachaise
  12. ↑ La Premier Parure, ca.1900 In: artnet
  13. ↑ Toréador de Séville In: Musée d'Orsay
  14. ↑ Monseigneur Lacroix In: Musée d'Orsay
  15. ↑ Le Mur des fédérés . In: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, State University of New Jersey
personal data
SURNAME Moreau-Vauthier, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moreau-Vauthier, Gabriel Jean Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1936
Place of death Iteuil near Poitiers , France