Victor Guillaume

Victor Guillaume is a painter, engraver and Lithographe French born the March 7th 1880 with Tantonville.

Biography

Born on March 7th, 1880, with Tantonville (Meurthe-et-Moselle), in a family of modest condition, it must very early work as wood-carver in an artist whom it will admire all his life: Eugene Vallin. Then he will become sculptor on frontages (that of the Excelsior to Nancy, owes him some particularly successful ornaments). Member of the " group; Young Lorraine School " , with, in particular Paul Hake, Michel Sticks, Gaston Ventrillon, he sees his work encouraged by the patron-collector Eugene Corbin and takes part in the exposures organized by Victor Prouvé.

1908: Victor Guillaume belongs to the Lorraine delegation to the exposure of the Palais of Rohan, with Strasbourg and Munich. Towards about thirty, it turned to painting to be expressed more but by it.

Initially marked by the Impressionism and the School of Nancy (its first works are immediately bought by Eugene Corbin), it expresses a great curiosity which will make him approach the revolution of Cézanne, then to evolve to a very personal design of Cubisme. André Vahl will say his manner " Refined cubism, of order, measurement and harmony (in Memories of the Academy of Stanislas 1972-73)

Joined by the Vosgean of Heathers Jean Lurçat renovating of the tapestry and its brother Andre, architect, it takes part with Ventrillon and Georges Sadoul in the creation of the Comité Nancy-Paris which this last will chair. This Committee is given for mission of better making known the new artistic currents by supporting the exchanges between Paris and the Lorraine.

Initiated by Etienne Cournault with engraving, worker baited with the rest, it will endeavor from now on to clarify the prospects for sound Lorraine Pays. He fixes himself in 1935 at Vaudémont where he will die on February 15th, 1942, discrete and poor, always dazzled by the rising sun on the Colline Inspired which he observes lovingly each day.

Its small house is always visible, vis-a-vis the Lorraine vastness sung by Maurice Barrès and its unconditional admiror the Master-engraver André Jacquemin, member of the Institut of France. In its Revolutionary without revolution , André Thirion describes it with affection like obstinately faithful to its province, modest until holiness and finishing its days with the foot of the ruins of the castle of Vaudémont, poor as he had lived . Its tomb, in the shade of the Turn of Brunehaut, of naked ground, carries on a Cross of Lorraine out of stone coarsely cut only the inscription: Victor Guillaume painter 1880-1942 .

Work

Works of Victor Guillaume are exposed in some museums and particular collections (see: the the Moselle with Liverdun 1922 Museum of the Art schools - Nancy).

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