Hélène de Beauvoir

Hélène de Beauvoir (born 6 June 1910 in Paris; † 5 July 2001 Goxwiller ) was a French painter and the younger sister of Simone de Beauvoir.

Life

The painter Hélène de Beauvoir was born in Paris, Boulevard du Montparnasse 103, born as the daughter of Françoise Brasseur and lawyer Georges de Beauvoir.

Your Baccalaureate in Philosophy put Beauvoir from 1927, after which she attended evening classes life drawing at the Art Schools Académie de la Grande Chaumiere and Academie Colarossi. The study of engraving and the graphics they began at the Art School " Rue de Fleurs " in 1928. During the same year, she met the French philosopher Jean -Paul Sartre know when it was sent out by her sister on a date with him.

1934 to 1935 she worked as a secretary at the Galerie Bonjean. In 1935 she undertook a study trip to Italy, where they visited Florence, Rome, Naples and Capri. Her first solo exhibition opened de Beauvoir in January 1936 in the mentioned gallery. At the opening of Pablo Picasso came and ruled: " I like your painting. She is very independent. " In the same year Hélène worked for her sister and Sartre by abtippte manuscripts of the two.

1940 Hélène planned to go to Portugal for a month, but World War II forced them to stay there until 1945. During this time she married in 1942 her friend Lionel de Roulet, a student of Sartre. He later became a diplomat and so the two moved around several times, including in 1945 to Vienna to Belgrade in 1947 and 1950 to Milan, where he was director of the French Cultural Centre. In 1963 she bought a former winemakers house in Goxwiller in Alsace. Even after the death of her husband in 1990, she continued to live there. Hélène had no children; her husband Lionel was diagnosed in youth at a special tuberculosis, which made ​​him infertile.

Hélène had a variety of exhibitions in many galleries in Europe, for example, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Regensburg, Rome, Lisbon, Florence, Tokyo, Geneva, Central and North America such as New York and Boston. Particularly noteworthy is their relationship to the gallery Ludwig Hammer, whom she met in 1970 on the boat trip from Yokohama to Russia. A life- long-lasting friendship was born. " C'est au cours de ce que je voyage rencontrai Ludwig Hammer qui m'organisa différentes à l' étranger expositions. Un très cher ami. " S. 248, Souvenirs, Hélène de Beauvoir. Today, located in the gallery hammer in Regensburg, a considerable part of its more than 3000 colorful and expressive works.

In the early 1970s Hélène became active in the women's movement and helped in Strasbourg at the foundation of a house for abused women.

Hélène had it not easy, because the sister Simone always wanted something a say in their painting. So Simone writes in her "The Story of Hélène's painting" on the early style of painting her sister " for years she practiced, for me at that time too conscientious to compose the perfect picture. " What Picasso had so pleased, namely that Hélène not uncritically took over the then prevailing non-representational painting, Simone was not right. Hélène would therefore can be forewarned, Simone wrote, in 1948, critical in letters to a friend who had to read at the age Hélène. But in the 1960s it was finally over with the skepticism over. Simone wrote in a letter: " What a glorious images all admire you made your coup! " ( Shown in " Beauvoir peintre " ) Jean Paul Sartre, sure to be had for no complacency opinions, wrote in his longer text for an exhibition Hélène in Brest enthusiastic: " Your work is able to persuade and inspire!"

Works (selection)

• Les Danseurs, 1951
• Bocca di Magra, 1955
• Skieurs à l' arret, 1957
• Landscape, 1960
• Female double act, 1967
• Lagoon, 1970
• Dreamboat, 1975
• Deux Soeurs, 1986