School of Savièse

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School of Savièse , French École de Savièse , is an established collective term in Swiss art history for a number of artists who worked in the municipality of Savièse in the Swiss canton of Valais and found inspiration for their work and sometimes also lived there.

Meaning of the name

The group name, which was already used at the end of the 19th century and was introduced by Paul Seippel in 1891, does not denote a closely related number of people and there were hardly any thematic or stylistic dependencies between the painters concerned , such as in other "schools" to be seen between an important master and his students or successors.

The obvious commonality of the included artists from two centuries is that they had a more or less clear connection to the Valais village of Savièse and its landscape. Some had a penchant for landscape painting and folkloric and mythical iconography. In addition, they can be assigned to different art-historical style epochs.

With the exception of Raphy Dallèves, the painters did not come from Valais, but from other, mostly urban regions and were looking for a natural, traditional environment in Valais, as did other artists who did not come to Savièse but to other towns in the canton.

When the Valais section of the GSMB was founded in 1903 , it was initially called "Section de Savièse" because the artists involved belonged to the active scene there; as early as 1904 the new group was given the name "Section du Valais".

The Geneva painter Albert Chavaz , who also belongs to this series of artists, relativizes the importance of the often cited brand itself: L'école de Savièse, ça n'existe pas, ça n'a jamais existé. Pour qu'il y ait une école, il faut que des gens partagent quelque chose dans leur travail: ce n'était pas le cas ici. La seule chose qui nous rapprochait, c'était le lieu. Ah! cette manie des étiquettes! (Eng .: "The school of Saviése doesn't exist, it never existed. A school meant that its members shared something of their work - that wasn't the case here. The only thing that brought them closer together was that Place. Oh! This tendency towards labels! »)

In 2015, the municipality of Savièse set up a permanent exhibition for its own public art collection by representatives of the École de Savièse . The local association Amis des peintres de l'École de Savièse is committed to mediating the group of works.

The Wallis Art Museum , which owns significant groups of works by many artists from the École de Savièse , dedicated a special exhibition to the group in 2012.

people

Chronological list of the people usually included in the École de Savièse :

literature

  • Pascal Ruedin: L'École de Savièse. Une colonie d'artistes au coeur des Alpes vers 1900. Exhibition catalog of the Wallis Art Museum. Customs 2012.
  • Bernard Wyder: L'École de Savièse ou le centenaire d'une appellation controversée. In: Vallesia , 46, 1991, pp. 155-167.
  • Bernard Wyder: L'École de Savièse ou le Barbizon helvétique. Lausanne 1984.
  • Michel Lehner: Les peintres de Savièse. Geneva 1982.
  • L'École de Savièse. Exhibition catalog Manoir de Martigny. 1974.

Web links

Qu'est-ce que "L'Ecole de Savièse"? Fondation Bretz-Héritier, accessed on August 5, 2020 (French).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ethel Mathier: Ernest Biéler and the collector Jules Tissières. In: Vallesia , 2003, pp. 417-473; P. 427.
  2. ^ Ethel Mathier: Ernest Biéler and the collector Jules Tissières. In: Vallesia , 2003, pp. 417-473; P. 427.
  3. ^ Ethel Mathier: Ernest Biéler and the collector Jules Tissières. P. 453.
  4. ^ L'Hebdo , December 30, 1987.
  5. ↑ Les peintres de l'École de Savièse. Collection communale. Savièse municipality, accessed on August 4, 2020.