Helene Oettingen

the baroness Helene d' Oettingen , born in Ukraine or with Venice in 1887 and died in Paris in 1950, is a painter and French woman of letters. She was known like poet under the name of Léonard Pieux, novelist under the name of Roch Grey and painter under the name of François d' Angiboult

Biography

It is girl of the Polish countess Miaczinska, left for Europe in 1902, after its divorce of Otto von Oettingen, officer of the Tsar, with his cousin the painter Serge Férat. Both very fortunate, receiving abundant subsidies of Russia, becomes the patrons of Parisian Bohemia: max Jacob, Modigliani, Survage of which he was the lover, comes on their premises there to eat and be heated.

Helene Oettingen studies in the Années 1900 with the Académie Julian and holds in the Années 1910 a living room “artistico-arts person” where all the Russian and French avant-garde is found. She plays a big role with Serge Férat in the survival of the review the Evenings of Paris directed by Apollinaire and while receiving in her living room of the 229 Boulevard Raspail in Paris “those which have or will have a name in painting, poetry and the modern music”.

In 1917, after the Revolution, the new mode sequesters its fortune and the baroness must reduce her generous way of life. She continues to write, but its work is not enough for him to live. On the councils of Apollinaire and his Soffici lover, met with Florence with its departure of Russia and found in Paris in 1903 with the Hive, it had bought with Férat nine fabrics and five drawings with the Douanier Rousseau in 1910. Their sale will provide for his needs until its death. In 1935, it leaves the Raspail boulevard and dies of a leukemia in 1950.

In End of the world Soffici describes it like “one of these disastrous women, the race of heroins of the poems of Pouchkine, Lermontov, the novels of Russian Dostoïevski and other writers. ”

Exposures

  • Living room of independent in 1912,1914,1926,1929.
  • Living room of the surindépendants in 1934-1938.
  • Russian Exposure of art in Prague in 1935.

Publications

  • the Castle of the red pond , iilustré of wood engraved by Survage.
  • the Man, the city, the voyage , text published in the review Sic .
  • Horses of midnight , thirteen poems illustrated by Picasso in 1936 and published by Iliazd.
  • Written for North-South , Action, the new Spirit, the Life of the letters , and on Van Gogh, Modigliani, Apollinaire, Douanier Rousseau.

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