Jean Dunand

Jean Dunand , born the May 20th 1877 with Lancy and died in 1942 with Paris, is an artist Suisse French naturalized in 1922, having practiced arts of the Sculpture, the Dinanderie and the Laque. " It counts among the greatest creators Art Déco ".

Biography

His/her father is gold founder in clock making industry. In 1891, it enters to the school of the industrial arts of Geneva and in fate in 1897 with a purse of the town of Geneva. It is dependant there of friendship with François-Louis Schmied which will become a wood engraver and with Carl Albert Angst, a sculptor.

Wishing to continue its formation it goes up to Paris. It exerts there the trade of workman engraver while following the courses of the evening of the National school of Decorative Arts in the workshop of the sculptor Jean Dampt. During its holidays in Switzerland it is initiated with the Dinanderie. In 1903, it takes part for the first time in the living room of decorative arts, with a plate with bread out of carved wooden.

The following year, it settles street Hallé, in the district of Alésia of the XIVe district of Paris. It presents a statue hones " of it; Éveil" with the living room of the company of the artists decorators. In 1905, it exposes for the first time of the vases in dinandery to the national living room. He marries in 1906 Marguerite Moutardier with which he will have six children.

In 1909, Ernest Biéler makes its portrait by representing it with its tools of dinandier and engraver. Initially fore-mentioned Jules-John, it francizes his first name as a Jean. In 1912, it meets Japanese Seizo Sugawara who resides in France and auprès of which it is initiated with the Laque. To the living room of the artists decorators of 1913, it presents a vase to the snakes of almost 1m30 as well as a Caducée clock out of bronze.

In 1921 sets up a formed group of Jean Dunand, Jean Goulden, Paul Jouve and François-Louis Schmied which offers its first exposure to the gallery Georges Petit. Jean Dunand exposes to it not only vases in dinandery but for the first time of the panels, the folding screens and the pieces of furniture in lacquer. Many decorative reasons were proposed by Jean Lambert-Rucki.

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