Michel Paul Marie Gigon (11 September 1929 – 25 May 2022) was a French painter and
stained-glass
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...
window designer.
Biography
Michel Paul Marie Gigon was born in
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Calvados on 11 September 1929. He began his artistic career in 1953. Gigon died in Le Coudray on 25 May 2022, at the age of 92.
Work
Gigon had many exhibitions in France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Poland. Many of its paintings are in private collections in France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain.
* Caen museum one painting.
*
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
museum severals drawings.
* Arts et Lettres management of Paris one drawing.
* Kłodzko museum (Poland) one painting.
* CES Marcel Proust school at Illiers-Combray (Eure-et-Loir) one painting.
* Saint Germain l’Auxerois church Paris, one painting.
Michel Gigon's stained-glass windows in France
North of France
*Pas-de-Calais Courset, Chapelle du foyer de charité
*Pas-de-Calais Saint-Omer, Chapelle de la Malassise « Ecole »
*Pas-de-Calais Wisques, Abbaye des Moniales « Eglise »
*Nord Aulnoye, Eglise Saint-Eloi
*Nord Haumont, Eglise Saint-Michel
*Nord Mont-des-Cats, Eglise paroissiale
Paris area
*Yvelines
Andrésy
Andrésy () is a commune in the Yvelines department in north-central France.
Population
Twin towns – sister cities
Andrésy is twinned with:
* Haren, Germany
* Międzyrzecz, Poland
* Oundle, England, United Kingdom
* Westerwolde, Netherl ...
, Parish church
*Yvelines Bois d’Arcy, Parish church
*Aisne Château-Thierry, Saint-Crépin church
*Val d'Oise Hodent near
Magny-en-Vexin
Magny-en-Vexin (, literally ''Magny in Vexin'') is a commune in the Val-d'Oise ''département'' in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the .
Population
Education
Public schools:dalle de verre
*Calvados Goustranville, Parish church
*Manche Bricquebec, Abbaye Notre Dame de Grâce
*Manche Canville la Roque, Eglise Saint Malo (to see painting « Transfiguration »)
*Manche Cosqueville, Parish church
*Manche Tamerville, Parish church
South of France
*Lot Bovila, Parish church
*Lot Rouillac, Parish church related to Montcuq
*Lot Saint Geniez, Parish church related to Montcuq
*Bouches-du-Rhône Aix-en-Provence, Chapelle du séminaire
*Alpes-Maritimes Saint Honorat island,
Lérins Abbey
Lérins Abbey () is a Cistercian monastery on the island of Saint-Honorat, one of the Lérins Islands, on the French Riviera, with an active monastic community.
There has been a monastic community there since the 5th century. The construction ...
See also
*Ardennes Dom-le-Mesnil, Parish church
*Charente-Maritime Saint-Sauvant, Parish church
*Eure-et-Loir Dreux, school of la Sablonnière, stained-glass window and mosaic
*Morbihan Arzal, church of Lantierne
Bibliography
* Revue Vitrea: Vitrail - Verre - Architecture - Le vitrail français moderne
Revue du centre international du vitrail - n° 4 - 2eme semestre 1989
ISSN 0991-0131
Page 52: Les peintres et le vitrail
About Michel Gigon
* Monograph "Michel Gigon"
Jil Silberstein, preface from
André Frossard
André Frossard (14 January 1915 – 2 February 1995) was a French journalist and essayist.
Early life
André Frossard was born on 14 January 1915 in Saint-Maurice-Colombier, Doubs, France. His father, Louis-Oscar Frossardan, was one of ...
(1980).
* Le vitrail français contemporain
Françoise Perrot - Centre international du vitrail - Chartres
Edition: L'oeil & la main - La manufacture
Diffusion LA MANUFACTURE 1984
Page 68
* Le vitrail Contemporain "Comme un chant de lumière"
Jean-Marie Geron - Albert Moxhet
Edition: Dexia - La renaissance du livre
Collection Références
Pages 18, 146, 147
* Revue: Exposition - Un siecle de vitrail en picardie
association
Monuments de picardie
April 1987
* L'Homme nouveau - Number 1411 - December 22sd 2007
Pages 4, 5
Portrait "Un artiste déconcertant"
Geneviève Bayle