Pierre Waidmann (

Remiremont Remiremont (; german: Romberg or ) is a town and commune in the Vosges department, northeastern France, situated in southern Grand Est. The town has been an abbatial centre since the 7th century, is an economic crossroads of the Moselle and Mosel ...

, August 19, 1860 –

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, October 26, 1937) was a French painter and sculptor. He was a

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painter and also a photographer.

Biography

Pierre Waidmann, born into a wealthy family and sensitive to the arts, moved from his native Lorraine to Paris in the late 1870s to study with

Ferdinand Humbert Jacques-Ferdinand Humbert (8 October 1842, in Paris – 6 October 1934, in Paris) was a French painter who specialized in portraits and historical scenes. Life and work His uncle, Jean Charles Ferdinand Humbert (1813–1881), was a famous la ...

and

François-Louis Français François-Louis Français (1814–1897), also known as Louis Français, was a French painter, lithographer and illustrator who became one of the most commercially successful landscape painters of the 19th century. A former pupil of Jean Gigoux ...

. Ten years later he was also a pupil of Alfred Roller and Henri Gervex. In 1890 he took up residence in Paris, at 66 , but he still returned regularly to stay at the home of his grandfather, the collector (1802–1881) where he painted numerous landscapes of the

Vosges The Vosges ( , ; german: Vogesen ; Franconian and gsw, Vogese) are a range of low mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the border, they form a single ...

region. In the historic 18th-century mansion where he was born, Waidmann created the interior decorations (especially marquetry and

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s) in many rooms. In about 1884, he even set up his atelier there. He died in 1937 in

, at the age of 77. In 2011, the two museums of Remiremont, the Charles de Bruyères Museum and the Charles-Friry Museum, dedicated a

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to him, grouping together a hundred of his works, including sixty paintings,

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s and bindings. In February and March 1896 he had a show at

Le Barc de Boutteville The art gallery of Le Barc de Boutteville, at 47 Rue le Peletier, Rue Le Peletier, 9th arrondissement, was one of the few places in Paris in the 1890s where young artists were welcome to present their work to the public, in the years after the deat ...

, an avant-garde gallery in ParisBiography
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Gallery

Pierre Waidmann (11).jpg, ''Platanes au bord de l'eau'' (Plane Trees at the Water's Edge) (1893) Pierre Waidmann (7).jpg, ''Au Bord de l'eau: au pays des Vosges (At the Water’s Edge: In the Country of the Vosges) (1892), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum Pierre Waidmann (9).jpg, ''Huy'' (ca. 1906), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum Pierre Waidmann (5).jpg, ''Printemps'' (Spring) (ca. 1909), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum Pierre Waidmann (17).jpg, ''Effet de neige'' (Snow Effect) (1911), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum Pierre Waidmann (1).jpg , ''Apocalypse selon Saint Jean'' (Apocalypse According to Saint John) (1930), illuminated book, Charles-Friry Museum Pierre Waidmann (19).jpg, ''Maquette de la ferme'' (Model of the Farm)(ca. 1933), oil on cardboard and wood, Charles de Bruyères Museum Pierre Waidmann (15).jpg, ''Batteur de faux'' (Scythe Beater) (before 1936), clay pottery, Charles-Friry Museum

Other works

* ''Dans le jardin'', 1886 * ''Au bord de la

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, environs de Remiremont'', 1887 * ''Un pré dans les Vosges'' * ''La Moselle'', 1888 * ''Première neige dans les Vosges'' * ''La Vallée de Saint-Amé'', 1889 * ''Ruisseau dans les Vosges'', 1890 * ''Soleil de Mars'' * ''Eau courante dans les Vosges'' * '' Mortagne dans les Vosges'' * ''La Moselle'', 1894 * ''Le Trou de Roisgneux'', 1896

References

Bibliography

* ''Pierre Waidmann… : l'exposition de ses tableaux'' (Pierre Waidmann: A Showing of his Paintings), "Galerie des artistes modernes” (Gallery of Modern Artists), Paris, 1905. * ''Exposition Pierre Waidmann'', "Galerie Georges Petit", 1907. * Léopold Honoré, ''Nos artistes: Pierre Waidmann'' (Our Artists: Pierre Weismann), in "La revue lorraine illustrée", Number 3, July–September 1910, pp. 93–96. * Pierre Heili, ''Pierre Waidmann'', in "Les Vosgiens célèbres. Dictionnaire biographique illustré" (Famous People of the Vosges: Illustrated Biographical Dictionary), Albert Ronsin ed. Vagney, published by Editions Gérard Louis, 1990, pp. 367–368 – ISBN 2-907016-09-1. * Roland Conilleau, Jean-Pierre Stocchetti, ''Pierre Waidmann, une vie d'artiste'' (Pierre Waidmann, An Artist's Life),

Haroué Haroué () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. Geography The river Madon flows through the commune. Historical Features The Château d'Haroué was constructed between 1720 and 1732 by Germain Boffrand for ...

, Ediz. Gérard Louis, 2011, 96pp. – ISBN 978-2-357-63028-4. * ''Pierre Waidmann (1860–1937), un peintre en résidence'' (Pierre Waidmann (1860–1937), An Artist in Residence, municipal museums, 2011, 36 pp. (Catalog of the retrospective).

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