Gustave Louis Jaulmes (14 April 1873 – 7 January 1959) was an eclectic French artist who followed the neoclassical trend in the

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

movement. He created monumental frescoes, paintings, posters, illustrations, cartoons for tapestries and carpets and decorations for objects such as enamels, sets of plates and furniture.

Life

Early years

Gustave Louis Jaulmes was born in

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, Switzerland on 14 April 1873. He attended the ''

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'' in Paris. Jaulmes initially trained as an architect, and worked with

Victor Laloux Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux (15 November 1850 – 13 July 1937) was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher. Life Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, with his studies i ...

at the

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before taking up painting. In 1902 he abandoned architecture, and after a few months in the studio of

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at the '' Académie Julian'' he decided to become a decorative painter.

Pre-war period

Jaulmes saw his work as a complement and extension of buildings, and made professional and personal links with architects such as

Louis Süe Louis Süe (14 July 1875 – 7 August 1968) was a French painter, architect, designer and decorator. He and André Mare co-founded the ''Compagnie des arts français'', which produced Art Deco furniture and interior decorations for wealthy custome ...

. He became known for his monumental frescos and paintings, and for his posters and sets of decorative objects. He worked with

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on frescos for the Villa Kerylos and the Palais de Chaillot in 1902–08. They painted the walls of the villa with scenes from Greek mythology chosen by the scholar

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, often copied from Attic pottery. In 1909 Jaulmes and Karbowsky decorated the fashionable Royal-Hôtel in

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. In 1912 Jaulmes joined other artists to create ''L'Atalier Français'', a cooperative business that borrowed organizational idea from the Wiener Werkstätte. Other members included Louis Süe, Roger de La Fresnaye,

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André Mare Charles André Mare (1885–1932), or André-Charles Mare, was a French painter and textile designer, and co-founder of the Company of French Art (''la Compagnie des Arts Français'') in 1919. He was a designer of colorful textiles, and was one o ...

and the brothers

André and Paul Vera André and Paul Vera were French brothers who were pioneers of the Art Deco style. André Vera (1881–1971) was a theoretician on garden design and a town planner. Paul Vera (1882–1957) was a painter and decorator. The Vera brothers collaborate ...

André Vera André Vera (1881–1971) was a French garden designer, town planner and pioneer of the Art Deco style. He is known for his collaboration with his brother, the painter and decorator Paul Vera. He wanted to renew French design, which he felt had be ...

wrote a manifesto that defined the goal of the group as combining traditional and modern ideas to bring clarity, order and aesthetic unity to interior design.

Post-war

In 1919 Jaulmes helped decorate the Victory Celebrations that followed

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(1914–18). Louis Süe, André Mare, Jaulmes and

Antoine Sartorio Antoine Sartorio (27 January 1885, Menton – 19 February 1988, Jouques) was a French sculptor. Brief biography Antoine Sartorio was born in Menton on 27 January 1885 and died in Jouques on 19 February 1988. He studied at the École des Beaux-A ...

were commissioned to create the temporary cenotaph of the Arc de Triomphe. That year Süe and the painter André Mare launched the ''Compagnie des Arts Français'', the successor to the ''L'Atalier Français''. Jaulmes was among the artists who contributed textile designs to the company. Others were Marianne Clouzot, Jacques Drésa (André Saglio), Marguérite Dubuisson, Charles Martin, Maurice Taquoy and Paul Vera. Through the company he received many public and private commissions for hotels, casinos, town halls and exhibition rooms. He contributed decorations to the 1921 International Exposition in Ghent, and to the International Expositions in Paris in 1925, 1931 and 1937. He decorated the

Musée Rodin The Musée Rodin ( en, Rodin Museum) in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as ...

and the SS ''Île de France''. For the Town Hall of the fifth arrondissement in Paris in the ''La salle des Fêtes'' Jaulmes made the stage curtain with an allegory of "Letters, Sciences and Law", that represents young women and children adorning a garden with garlands. He also decorated the ceiling of the room with geometric motifs of festivals and garlands. He painted a fresco of ''Le théâtre antique'' for the monumental Art Deco

Théâtre national de Chaillot The Théâtre National de Chaillot (English: Chaillot National Theatre) is a theatre located in the Palais de Chaillot at 1, place du Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Close by the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadéro Gardens—the Th� ...

, built in 1937. In 1939 he decorated the ceiling of the ''Salle des Mariages'' in the Neuilly-sur-Seine town hall. In 1940 he created large murals for the ''Salle des Pas Perdus'' in the

Centre William Rappard The Centre William Rappard at Rue de Lausanne 154, Geneva, Switzerland, was built between 1923 and 1926 to house the International Labour Office (ILO). It was the first building in Geneva designed to house an international organization. In 1975 t ...

in Geneva, then the headquarters of the

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, depicting ''Dans la joie universelle'', ''Le travail dans l'abondance'' and ''Le bienfait des loisirs''. Gustave Louis Jaulmes died in Paris on 7 January 1959.

Works

Decorator

* 1903–07: Villa Kerylos, Beaulieu-sur-Mer (1903–1907) * 1903–07:

Palais de Chaillot The Palais de Chaillot () is a building at the top of the in the Trocadéro area in the 16th ''arrondissement'' of Paris, France. For the Exposition Internationale of 1937, the old 1878 Palais du Trocadéro was partly demolished and partly ...

: Frescos in the grand foyer with

* 1909: Frescos and enamels at the Royal Palace in Evian * 1911: Synagogue of Boulogne-Billancourt * 1911: Arras town hall: Decoration of the marriage hall * 1918:

: Decoration of the ''salle du Baiser'' * 1919: Decoration of the ''Fêtes de la Victoire'', Avenue de la Grande Armée, with

and

* 1923: Frescoes of the Temple protestant de Reims, covered by whitewash in 1972 * 1925: Décoration of the SS ''Île de France'' with

* 1925:

International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (french: Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes) was a World's fair held in Paris, France, from April to October 1925. It was designed by the Fren ...

in Paris * 1931:

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* 1934: Théâtre de Carcassonne * 1935: Cachan town hall * 1937:

Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne The ''Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne'' (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France. Both the Palais de Chaillot, housing the Mus ...

* 1937: Théâtre du Trocadéro; (now

), foyer and vestibule with Jean Niermans, Édouard Niermans and

* 1939: Dining room of the marriage hall of the

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town hall * 1940: Paintings in the salle des Pas-Perdus of the

* Church of Saint-Nicaise in Reims * Frescoes and the stage curtain of the hall of the Town Hall of the fifth arrondissement in Paris * The musée A.-G. Poulain in

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displays three decorative wall panels from the dining room of Paul Noccard in

. * Uccle (Brussels): Frescos of the Château de La Fougeraie, built by

for the industrialist Paul Wittouck * Hôtel Bristol,

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in Paris: Art Nouveau panel of the ''Four Seasons'' Jaulmes also painted the coffered ceiling of Le Bristol's Restaurant d'Hiver in classical motifs. * Villa Nocard,

Paintings

* Arras: Canvases for the dining room of honor of the Exposition des Arts décoratifs of 1925 *1925: The French national coat of arms on a tapestry, titled "Les armes de France". Commissioned by the city of Strasbourg, this piece was to be installed at the ''Commissariat General of the Republic'' in the city. * Musée départemental de l'Oise in Beauvai: Several canvases including one of "Madame Jaulmes et sa fille" * Musée des années trente at Boulogne-Billancourt: Canvas of Simone, daughter of the artist, on the terrace of the Villa Kerylos

Illustrations

*Various books by

Frédéric Mistral Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (; oc, Josèp Estève Frederic Mistral, 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was a French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel ...

*1921 Poster for the

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'' *1927 Christmas edition of ''

L'Illustration ''L'Illustration'' was a weekly French newspaper published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, after 1906, the ...

'' *1945 ''Le Cantique des Cantiques'', Paris, Les Éditions Universelles

Notes

Sources

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