Jacques the Knight

Jacques the Knight is a glassmaker, decorator, illustrator and French engraver born with Paris on July 26th, 1896 and died in 1987.

Biography

His/her father was representative in the medium of architecture and his/her mother was professor of drawing at the town of Paris.

It followed the courses of the National school of Arts décortaifs of 1911 to 1915, where he was the pupil of Paul Renouard and Eugene Morand.

At the time of the War of 14-18, it is mobilized of 1915 with 1919. In 1920, he is Master-glassmaker in the workshop of Louis Barrillet, he collaborates with him until in 1945.

He was member of the Company of the Artists decorators and member of the Living room of Fall to which he has some time taken part as an artist (paintings and watercolours). He is also founding member in 1925 of UAM (Union of the modern Artists).

In 1948, it organizes the center of Sacred art in collaboration with Maurice Rocher, and starting from 1952, it was in charge of the course of stained glass at the University of the Art schools.

Its work

It is inter alia known for its production of luminaries starting from the Années 1920, then Années 1930. Lamps with the purified lines using of materials of industry, intended for the private individuals in general or being integrated into well defined architectural projects (ex: Cavrois villa in Croix).

It created also many stained glasses and canopies, in Paris (workshop of the glassmaker Louis Barrillet, 15 square de Vergennes), for the French house of the International exhibition of decorative Arts of 1925 in Paris.

He also works for the sacred art, by constructing the stained glasses of churches and vaults in France, Belgium and Switzerland (Doullens, the Rock-Posay, Condé-sur-Noireau, Saint-Hilaire-of-Harcouët the, Borough-in-Bresse) and of the cathedrals (Angers, Beauvais, Besancon, Toulouse). He works also abroad within the framework of the second Rebuilding. Can be thus quoted the canopies of the basilica of Echternach, those of the platform of the cathedral of Luxembourg (where he already worked in 1937 with the Barillet workshop) and the whole of the canopies of Notre-Dame of Trier (Liebenfraukirche), compared with a " true tapisserie" (commission of sacred art and rebuilding in the Rhineland Palatinat). Figurative or abstaits, its stained glasses in general achieve the unanimity near the architects and building owners of the time. Among its more beautiful achievements, there is the work completed with the assistance of his son with Borny (Metz) for the church Saint-Pierre de Pingusson.

Several exposures are devoted to him in 2007-2008 (the chronological order the Swimming pool of Roubaix, the departmental Museum from Oise in Beauvais, the Foundation Solange Bertrandà Montigny-the-Metz, 15 Square de Vergennes in Paris).

External bonds

Biography
Biography
Exposure " From Thousand éclats"

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