Jules-Émile Zingg (25 August 1882– 4 May 1942) was a French Modernist painter known for his rural scenes.

Biography

He was born in Montbéliard, Doubs, in the mountainous Jura area of Eastern France, 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 under

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in 1901. After a year he won a scholarship to study in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Fernand Cormon. He won second place in the Prix de Rome. 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 World War I he began to exhibit at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne in a modernist style. At Perros-Guirec in Brittany he met the founders of

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: Maurice Denis,

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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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@ the Base Leonore In 1937 he was awarded the Grand Prize at the Exposition Universelle. He designed tapestries for the Aubusson and Gobelin factories. He became vice-president of the society dedicated to the art of

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' 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 plaste ...

painting, and about 1925 decorated with frescoes the columns of the famous Montparnasse brasserie, La Coupole. 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 The Musée des Beaux Arts de Pont-Aven also known as Museum of Pont-Aven was created in 1985 with the support of the French Museum Department and the Finistère Conseil Général. The modern wing built in 1985 is reserved for exhibitions and th ...

and in Paris at the Musée Bourdelle (1990). After World War I one of his pupils was . Twenty works were exhibited at the museum of Cosne-sur-Loire, thanks to a donation from Emile Loiseau in 1970, including his own portrait by Zingg. Zingg died in Paris on 4 May 1942.

Selected paintings

File:Zingg-Wheat.jpg, ''Threshing Wheat'' File:Zingg-Cart.jpg, ''A Cart on the Road in Lorraine'' 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
@ ArtNet {{DEFAULTSORT:Zingg, Jules-Emile 1882 births 1942 deaths Artists from Montbéliard 19th-century French painters Prix de Rome for painting French male painters French Post-impressionist painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French tapestry artists Knights of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French male artists