Victor Prouvé ( was born 13 August 1858 in
Nancy, and died on 15 February 1943 at
Sétif (Algeria)). He was a French painter, sculptor and engraver of the
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
École de Nancy.
Biography
He designed decors of glass works and furniture for
Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé (; 4 May 1846 in Nancy, France, Nancy – 23 September 1904 in Nancy) was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted fo ...
. He worked for
Eugène Vallin, Fernand Courteix, the
Daum Brothers and Albert Heymann. He worked on book bindings with
Camille Martin and the bookbinder René Wiener.
In 1888, he discovered
Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...
, which influenced the light of his paintings.
In 1890 he went with the dissenting artists to the new Société des Beaux-Arts.
He became the second president of the École de Nancy at Émile Gallé's death, in 1904. From 1919 to 1940, he took the direction of th
School of Fine Arts of Nancy
He was the father of architect and designer
Jean Prouvé (1901–1984).
Beyond his contributions to painting and sculpture, Victor Prouvé also ventured into jewelry design, creating pieces such as waist belts and brooches. His jewelry work displays a sculptural quality, characterized by intentional composition and fluid modeling. Crafted with precision by M. Rivaud, these creations reflect Prouvé’s distinctive approach to wearable art.
Works
Selection of works by Victor Prouvé :
File:Les voluptueux 9727.JPG, ''The voluptuous'' (1889)
File:L'aube 09679.JPG, ''Dawn'' (''L'Aube''), 1900
File:La joie de vivre Victor Prouvé 0723.JPG, ''The joy of life'' (1904)
File:Victor Prouvé Bellieni 1903.jpg, Poster for Bellieni binoculars (1903)
File:Piano à queue La Mort du cygne.jpg, ''The death of the swan'' (1905)
File:Salle à manger art nouveau (Musée de lEcole de Nancy) (8029194773).jpg, Masson dining room (1903-1906)
Bibliography
*
Edmonde Charles-Roux (et al.), ''Victor Prouvé : voyages en Tunisie (1888–1890): dessins, aquarelles, huiles'', exhibition catalogue, Éditions Serpenoise (Metz), 1999, 95 p. .
* Jean-Paul Midant, ''L'art nouveau en France'', Les Éditions du Carrousel (Paris), 1999, 174 p.
* Madeleine Prouvé, ''Victor Prouvé, 1858–1943'', preface of
Jean Lurçat, Berger-Levrault (Paris), 1958, 204 p.
* Jean Perrin, « La collaboration entre
Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé (; 4 May 1846 in Nancy, France, Nancy – 23 September 1904 in Nancy) was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted fo ...
et Victor Prouvé », in ''Annales de l'Est'', special issue, 2005, pp. 199–210
* Anne-Laure Carré, ''Victor Prouvé, 1858–1943'', catalogue of the eponym exhibitions presented in Nancy from 17 May to 21 September 2008, Paris/Nancy, Gallimard/City of Nancy, 2008, 299 pages.
* Christian Debize, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Sophie Harent, Emmanuelle Héran, Blandine Otter, Bénédicte Pasques, Jérôme Perrin, Philippe Thiébaut and Claude Tillier, ''Victor Prouvé (1858–1943)'', Gallimard, Paris, 2008, 306 p., 463 ill., .
Victor Prouvé (1858–1943)
Report by Samuel Toutain.
* Danielle Birck
« École de Nancy : la preuve par Prouvé, Victor »
on the site o
Radio France International
Notes and references
External links
Victor Prouvé
on the site of th
École de Nancy
''Victor Prouvé – The École de Nancy years''
Victor Prouvé
on th
GeneaNet
website.
* on the site of in Lyons.
in the ttps://www.europeana.eu/portal/ Europeanawebsite.
Victor Prouvé exhibitions in Nancy in 2008
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Members of the École de Nancy
1858 births
1943 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
Commanders of the Legion of Honour
French portrait painters
Art Nouveau painters
Art Nouveau sculptors
20th-century French sculptors
19th-century French sculptors
19th-century French male artists