Pauline Peugniez

Pauline Peugniez (born April 28, 1890 in Amiens , † 1987 in Paris ) was a French painter and glass painter . She was a student of Maurice Denis . Between the two world wars, it made a major contribution to the renewal of sacred art with its leaded glass windows and wall paintings in churches.

Life

Pauline Peugniez came from a middle-class family, her father was a surgeon and her mother's father was a notary . After high school, she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Amiens and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. There she met her future husband Jean Hébert-Stevens , the cousin of the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens , whom she married in 1915.

While Pauline Peugniez continued her education, her husband became a well-known glass painter. His acquaintance with the Dominican Marie Alain Couturier and his participation in the Ateliers d'art sacré , which were founded in 1919 by Maurice Denis and George Desvallières (1861–1950), led Pauline and her husband mainly to create church windows.

In 1923 they set up a joint workshop on Rue de Bagneux in Paris. In 1937 they were commissioned to make windows in the nave of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Pauline Peugniez also created cardboard boxes for carpets that were manufactured in the Paris tapestry factory and in the carpet factory in Aubusson . She participated in exhibitions of the Société nationale des beaux-arts , the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon d'Automne (from 1920).

Pauline Peugniez and her husband worked intensively with Adeline Hébert-Stevens, the sister of Jean Hébert-Stevens, who was married to Paul Bony, and with Jacques Bony. All of them were glass painters and, as in the Saint-Medard church in Paris, it is not always possible to determine exactly who drew the boxes and who was involved in making the windows.

Works (selection)

• Wall painting in the Saint-Esprit church in Paris ( 12th arrondissement )
• Wall painting (sacraments) in the Saint-Ferdinand-des-Ternes church in Paris ( 17th arrondissement )
• Window in the Saint-Valentin church in Attenschwiller
• Window (apse) in the Notre-Dame-des-Missions church in Épinay-sur-Seine
• Window in the parish church in hangard ( Somme department )
• Window in the parish church in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin
• Window in the parish church in Plaine
• Window in the parish church in Le Plessier-Rozainvillers (Somme department)
• Window in the Saint-Martin church in Sondersdorf
• Window in Saint-Pierre de Solesmes Abbey
• Window in the parish church in Vouël ( Tergnier municipality ), 1930
• Window in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, around 1937
• Window in the Saint-Germain-de-Charonne church in Paris ( 20th arrondissement ), around 1950
• Choir window in the church of Varinfroy ( Département Oise ), 1954
• Window in the Saint-Charles de la Croix-Saint-Simon chapel in Paris ( 20th arrondissement ), around 1961

literature

• Georges Brunel, Marie-Laure Deschamps-Bourgeon, Yves Gagneux: Dictionnaire des Églises de Paris . Paris 2000 (1st edition 1995), ISBN 2-903118-77-9 .
• Jean Colson, Marie-Christine Lauroa (ed.): Dictionnaire des Monuments de Paris . Paris 2003 (1st edition 1992), ISBN 2-84334-001-2 .
• Aline Dumoulin, Alexandra Ardisson, Jérôme Maingard, Murielle Antonello: Paris d'Église en Église . Éditions Massin, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7072-0583-4 .