Jules-Émile Zingg (25 August 1882– 4 May 1942) was a French

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painter, known for his rural scenes. Other themes of his work included figures, genre scenes, landscapes and, landscapes with figures.

Biography

Jules-Émile Zingg was born on 25 August 1882, in

Montbéliard Montbéliard (; traditional ) is a town in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, about from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two subprefectures of the department. History Montbéliard is ...

Doubs Doubs (, ; ; ) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France. Named after the river Doubs, it had a population of 543,974 in 2019. in the mountainous Jura area of Eastern France. He was the son of a clockmaker and woodcutter. He started drawing at age four. There he began to paint the peasants and countryside. He studied the design of clocks before winning a scholarship to study at the Beaux-Arts school in

Besançon Besançon (, ; , ; archaic ; ) is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerland. Capi ...

under Félix-Henri Giacomotti in 1901. After a year he won a scholarship to study in Paris at the

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in the studio of

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. He won second place in the

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. His work was accepted at the Salon de Artistes Français. He studied with

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, who became a major influence on his work. After

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he began to exhibit at the

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and the Salon d'Automne in a modernist style. At

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he met the founders of

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and Georges Hanna Sabbagh. In the 1920s, he exhibited frequently in Paris. In 1930 he was named a Knight in the

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.Documentation
@ the Base Leonore In 1937 he was awarded the Grand Prize at the Exposition Universelle. He designed tapestries for the Aubusson and

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factories. He became vice-president of the society dedicated to the art of

fresco Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...

painting, and about 1925 decorated with frescoes the columns of the famous Montparnasse brasserie,

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. His work is to be found in many museum collections including the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, as well as museums in Besançon and other French towns. Retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pont-Aven and in Paris at the

Musée Bourdelle The Musée Bourdelle (, ''Bourdelle Museum'') is an art museum located at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France, located in the old studio of French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929). The museum is op ...

(1990). After

one of his pupils was . Twenty works were exhibited at the museum of

Cosne-sur-Loire Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire () is a commune and a subprefecture of the Nièvre department in central France. It was created in 1973 by the merger of two former communes: Cosne-sur-Loire and Cours.

Selected paintings

File:Zingg-Wheat.jpg, ''Threshing Wheat'' File:Zingg-Cart.jpg, ''A Cart on the Road in

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'' File:Zingg-Fields.jpg, ''Working in the Fields'' File:Musée art Montbéliard 0017.jpg, ''The Peasants' Meal''

References

Fineart: Jules-Émile Zingg

External links

More works by Zingg
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