Rodolphe Salis
Rodolphe Salis (* May 29, 1851 in Chatellerault, † March 20, 1897 in Naintré, Vienne ) was a painter and graphic artist, who as owner of Le Chat Noir ( " The Black Cat ") was known, is considered the first literary cabaret.
Life
His 1880 in the Boulevard de Rochechouart in Montmartre opened cabaret artistique, the " connected to social criticism cheerful entertainment " offered its guests, Salis had actually planned as a pub by artists for artists, but from the beginning the establishment of a bourgeois audience was frequented and due to his success soon became a model of literary cabaret at home and abroad.
Salis grew up in the small town of Chatellerault, where his father ran a distillery and disapproved of his son's artistic inclinations. At the age of 23 years Salis went to Paris, where he sought to pressure from his family after a brief career as a little successful painter and printmaker of money income sources and came up with the idea of establishing a cabarets - then in Montmartre nothing more than one of many artists pubs. To distinguish itself from the many others, he came up with Émile Goudeau to the idea of the literary circle Les Hydropathes to enrich guest hosting. Its housed in a converted post office establishment called Chat Noir cabaret artistique he called, in the former parlance a kind restaurant with cabaret performance for guest entertainment. It should serve as a meeting place for artists and painters exchange of ideas. One of the first regulars was Aristide Bruant. However, the chat noir was not only developed into a mecca for bohemians, but was increasingly frequented by Parisian society, so that the small restaurant quickly became too small. Because Menschenaufläufen front of the restaurant, there was an intervention by the power of order and an ultimatum: either closure of the store or access for everyone! Salis decided in 1885, in a three-storey villa in the Rue de Laval (now Rue Victor Massé ) move to increase. Aristide Bruant took over the old premises and set up his Le Mirliton.
At the new position Salis taught alongside the chanson - stage one, a shadow theater in its artistic design of Henri Rivière made . In the villa also the editors of the Chat Noir journal was housed, a project begun by Salis weekly paper with verses, short stories and illustrations.
Salis died unexpectedly early in 1897, shortly after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. The Chat Noir was closed in the same year. His grave inscription bore the statement attributed to him:
Awards and honors
On 6 May 2008, he was posthumously awarded the Star of satire.