Raymond Escholier

Raymond Escholier, 1923

Raymond Escholier (born December 25, 1882 in Paris , † September 19, 1971 in Nîmes ) was a French museum curator, politician, journalist, author, art critic and biographer of Victor Hugo .

life and work

Escholier (actually Escolier) studied in Paris and joined the museum administration. In 1913 he came to the Maison de Victor Hugo Museum and was a curator there from 1920 . In 1921 he became head of the cabinet of Aristide Briand . From 1922 he wrote regularly art reviews for the daily newspaper La Dépêche du Midi (Toulouse). From 1924 to 1925 he edited the magazine Demain . In 1933 he became director of the Petit Palais Museum (Paris) and organized important art exhibitions until 1940. He did not appear during the time of the Vichy regime . In 1956 he became head of culture for the city of Paris.

Together with his wife, Marie-Louise Pons Tande (1876-1956), who declined to be named, Escholier wrote numerous novels that appeared under his name, including Cantegril (Paris 1921, Occitan Toulouse 1975), of the Prix Femina awarded . He also published volumes of poetry.

Escholier was a Grand Officer in the Legion of Honor .

Works (excluding fiction)

Victor Hugo

• Victor Hugo. Le peintre. L'artiste, Paris 1926
• La Vie glorieuse de Victor Hugo, Paris 1928–1929
• La Place Royale et Victor Hugo, Paris 1933
• Victor Hugo et les femmes, Paris 1935
• Victor Hugo. Cet inconnu, Paris 1951
• Un amant de génie. Victor Hugo, Paris 1952, 1979
• Hugo, roi de son siècle, Paris 1970 (Spanish, Madrid 1972)

Eugène Delacroix

• Delacroix, 3 vols., Paris 1926–1929
• Delacroix et sa consolatrice, Paris 1933
• Eugène Delacroix, Paris 1963
• Delacroix et les femmes, Paris 1963

More art books and exhibition catalogs

• Le nouveau Paris. La vie artistique de la cité modern, Paris 1913
• Daumier, Paris 1913
• L'Art Italy, Paris 1935
• Large. Ses amis. Ses élèves, Paris 1936
• La peinture française au XXe siècle, Paris 1937
• Greco, Paris 1937
• Henri Matisse, Paris 1937
• La Peinture française au XIXe siècle, 3 vols., Paris 1941
• Matisse. Ce vivant, Paris 1956
• Daumier et son monde, Paris 1965

Other works

• Logis romantiques, Paris 1930
• Versailles, Paris 1930
• Souvenirs parlés de Briand, Paris 1932
• Mes Pyrénées, Paris 1933
• Constantinople, Paris 1935
• Hôtel-Dieu, Paris 1938
• Maquis de Gascogne, Paris 1945, 2004
• La Neige qui brûle. Marie Noël , Paris 1957, 1968
• Mes Pyrénées de Gavarnie au Canigou, Paris 1962

literature

• Nathan Imbert: Dictionnaire national des contemporains , Vol. 1, Paris 1939 sv (with picture)
• Qui était qui au XXe siècle ?, Levallois-Perret 2005 sv
• Bernadette Truno: Raymond et Marie-Louise Escholier. De l'Ariège à Paris. Un destin étonnant , Canet-en-Roussillon 2004
• Raymond Escholier: Avec les tirailleurs sénégalais 1917-1919. Lettres inédites du front d'Orient , ed. by André Minet, Paris 2013

Web links

• Literature by and about Raymond Escholier in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
• http://www.trabucaire.com/index.php?product_id=131&page=shop.product_details&category_id=13&flypage=bookshop-flypage.tpl&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=5 (biographical note, French, with picture)