Simone Boisecq
Simone Boisecq (born April 7, 1922 in Algiers , Algeria , † August 6, 2012 in Auray , Brittany ) was a French sculptor .
Life
Simone Boisecq grew up as the daughter of the Breton poet and art lover Emile Boisecq, who had settled in Algiers in 1920, and a pianist from Smyrna . In 1937 she took courses in sculpture at the École des beaux-arts d'Alger , studied philosophy and aesthetics at the Université d'Alger from 1941 and worked as an editor at the Agence France-Presse from 1943 . In 1945 she was transferred to Paris. The following year she took art courses at the Sorbonne and met the sculptor Karl-Jean Longuet (1904–1981), a great-grandson of Karl Marx . She left the newspaper and worked on ceramics in his studio. In 1949 they married. Her son Frédéric was named after Friedrich Engels , the daughter Laura after the Marx daughter Laura Lafargue .
Boisecq met Picasso , Constantin Brâncuși and Ossip Zadkine . In the mid-1950s she gradually gave up ceramics in favor of bronze. In 1952 she had her first solo exhibition, followed in 1954 by a group exhibition with Étienne Martin , Émile Gilioli , Alicia Penalba and François Stahly . Between 1956 and 1986 she realized around ten monumental sculptures, especially for the École nationale d'administration .
Her grave is in the family crypt near the Mur des Fédérés in the Père Lachaise cemetery .
Works (excerpt)
- 1954: L'HOMME CACTUS
- 1956: The Faun , bronze
- 1982: Stèle sans âge III for the École nationale d'administration
literature
- 1999: Simone Boisecq, The Sculptor and Her Poets, Edition Isele , ISBN 972-37-0551-6 , ISBN 3-7165-1209-5 , ISBN 3-86142-165-8
- 1999: What the forms find. The sculptural work of Simone Boisecq, Jean Daive , ISBN 3-86142-174-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Simone Boisecq in the catalog of the German National Library
- Le Figaro: Mort du sculpteur Simone Boisecq , 8 August 2012
- Association des Revues plurielles: Simone Boisecq
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mort du sculpteur Simone Boisecq , French , accessed August 9, 2012
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL 11/1970
- ↑ Musée Unterlinden, Colmar: Faun ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boisecq, Simone |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Longuet, Simone |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Algiers |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 2012 |
| Place of death | Auray France |