Jacques Villon

Jacques Villon ( born July 31, 1875 in Damville, † June 9, 1963 in Puteaux, near Paris), actually Gaston Emile Duchamp, was a French painter and printmaker. His pseudonym he adopted in 1894 based on the novel Jack in honor of the French poet Alphonse Daudet, the last name in honor of François Villon, but in its own pronunciation as Vilon [ vilɔn ].

Life and work

Jacques Villon was the first son of six children of the notary Justin -Isidore " Eugène " Duchamp and his wife Marie Caroline Lucie Duchamp, a daughter of the painter, engraver and Émile Frédéric Nicolle shipbroker (1830-1894), and elder brother of the artist Raymond Duchamp - Villon, Marcel Duchamp and Suzanne Duchamp. Together with Marcel Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, Francis Picabia, and Juan Gris, he was a member of the French Artists from 1912 Section d'Or group.

Villon studied after school in Rouen law and worked for some time as a notary. In 1894 he left Rouen, went to Paris and studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts. From 1894 to 1906 he worked as a caricaturist and satirical illustrator for several magazines in Paris, such as the Gil Blas, Chat Noir and L' Assiette au beurre. He also designed posters, which he, like Toulouse- Lautrec applied the technique of lithography. From 1899 to 1909 he printed about sixty color aquatints with Eugène Delatre. He then retired to Puteaux before Paris, where he created about 700 paintings. In 1913 he took part in New York at the legendary Armory Show.

After the First World War, Villon dealt primarily with printmaking, especially drypoint and aquatint, however, did not give up painting. 1919 emerged the first non-representational images. In the late forties he was discovered by a gallery. In the last two decades of his life, Jacques Villon also dealt with the illustration of books.

He is known primarily for his graphic works. He has long been regarded as a representative of Cubism, but today's art historians appreciate the linking of various other styles ( Impressionism, Futurism ) in his works.

His awards and honors include the Carnegie Prize (First Prize ), Pittsburgh, in 1950, was appointed Commandeur de la Légion d' Honneur (C. LH) in 1954 and the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale 1956.

Jacques Villon was a participant of the documenta 1 (1955), Documenta II (1959) and also represented posthumously at the documenta III in Kassel in 1964.

Works

• Le Rire, 1936, oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm, Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Inventory number AMVP 1204
• Décoration pour le Salon des Tuileries, 1938, oil on canvas, 489 x 587 cm, Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Inventory number AMVP 2615th