Paul Haviland

Paul Burty Haviland, Paul B. Haviland also, ( born June 17, 1880 in Paris, † December 21, 1950 in Yzeures -sur -Creuse ) was an American- French photographer, writer and art critic of the early 20th century, the was closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession.

Life

Paul Haviland was the son of Charles Haviland (1839-1922) and Madeleine Burty ( 1860-1900 ). His father was the owner of the famous porcelain factory in Limoges Haviland & Co., his mother the daughter of the art critic Philippe Burty. Thanks to its very wealthy family, he came early with art, music and theater in contact. Pierre- Auguste Renoir created a portrait of the boy at the age of four years.

After studying at the University of Paris, he studied from 1899 to 1902 at Harvard University in Cambridge. After graduation he worked from 1901 in New York as a representative in the porcelain company of the father, but spent little time in the office.

Beginning of the year 1908, he visited and his brother Frank, who was a painter, the exhibition of Rodin's drawings in the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, later Gallery 291, where he met Alfred Stieglitz. Both brothers acquired works from the exhibition, and Haviland had long conversations about art and culture with Stieglitz, whose gallery he saw as "a unique oasis of cultivation" and where he spent a lot of time. A few months later, the gallery should be closed for a substantial rent increase. Without Stieglitz inform, to Haviland turned to the landlord and signed a three -year contract for larger rooms in the same building.

As of 1909 Haviland wrote columns for Stieglitz's magazine Camera Work, and in October of the year his photography was portrait - Miss GG published in issue 28. A year later, he was co-editor, also served as secretary of Gallery 291 and helped in organizing the exhibitions of French artists.

1912 Haviland won the first prize of the annually organized " John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs" in Philadelphia, Stieglitz was a juror. A few months later, six other photographs in Camera Work ( No. 39, 1912) were published. A year later he wrote together with Marius de Zayas one of the first detailed essays on modern art, A Study of the Modern Evolution of Plastic Expression (New York, 1913).

1915 beat Haviland and other staff members in the gallery 291, Agnes E. Meyer and de Zayas, who were dissatisfied with the development of the gallery, before starting a new photo magazine. He was the driving force of one of the editors and authors of the magazine that was titled as the gallery 291.

A year later, in 1916, his father called back to France, because he was needed in the family business in Limoges. The following year he married Suzanne Lalique, the daughter of the famous designer glass and Art Nouveau artist René Lalique. Suzanne Lalique had worked artistically in the company of her father at the age of 17 years and continued to work later for the Haviland porcelain factory continued. 1918, the son Jack was born, 1923, the daughter Nicole. Paul Haviland corresponded constantly with Stieglitz, but returned for professional and family reasons - Haviland's father died in 1922 - never back to New York.

For several years Haviland was involved in legal disputes over the ownership structure of the family business. When they were settled in 1925, he bought from his paid share a monastery from the 17th century, Le Prieuré de la Mothe. The surrounding terrain, he converted to a wine region and was active until the end of life as a hobby winemaker, who established his own wine. In June 1943 he received French citizenship, which he had requested in 1930.

Paul Haviland died in 1950 at his estate in Yzeures -sur- Creuse.

Findings and estate

From 1941 to 1943, the couple hid the Haviland family friend, the French painter Georges Picard, who had been sold as a Jew from his residence in Obernai in Alsace, in his house and made ​​sure that Picard after his death in the cemetery of Yzeures -sur- Creuse was buried with eternal peace law. 2007 Paul Haviland posthumously with the " Médaille of Juste parmi les Nations " ( Righteous Among the Nations ) was awarded the State of Israel.

Picard's estate from letters and other papers turned over to the gallery owner and publisher Serge Aboukrat as a mediator in early 2012 the Mémorial de la Shoah, a museum and documentation center of the Holocaust in Paris. The collection was compiled by the daughter of Haviland, Nicole Maritch - Haviland. The photographic bequest can be found in the Musée d' Orsay, Paris.

Work

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1908, after meeting with Stieglitz, Haviland was dedicated to the photographer. His early work reflected the influence: blurred figures, coming from the semi-darkness, inspired by Japonisme and the painter Whistler. In the summer of 1909 Haviland New York photographed at night. His work shows the direct connection to its predecessors, the British Paul Marston (1864-1942), the author of London by Gaslight (1896 ) and Stieglitz, the photographs of the city of New York in 1897 created. The photographs show Haviland's interest in electric lighting, mostly he held the camera directly into the light. In the design of the nightclub " Rector's " he was trying to catch both the light halo around the streetlights and the reflections on the wet asphalt. The series of the New York night photos was the beginning of Haviland's turn was toward a aestheticism, which also rougher, closer to the snapshot and geometric. Your accomplishment was the direction in photographs of streets, roofs and the Port of New York in the years 1910 until 1914. Though he continued creating portraits after the First World War in France, they had not the quality of his New York photographs. Paul Haviland's work of art photographic style of pictorialism is attributed.