Séraphine Louis

Séraphine Louis ( born September 2, 1864 in Arzy (Oise ), † December 11, 1942 in Clermont (Oise ) ), also known as Séraphine de Senlis, was a French painter. It is one of the most important representatives of Naive Art in France.

Life

Séraphine Louis is originally from the country and moved to Senlis (Oise ), where she earned her living as a cleaning lady later. Their discoverer and patron was the German art collector Wilhelm Uhde and art critic (1874-1947), which was withdrawn in 1912 by chance on the attention and living in poverty wife when he was on holiday in Senlis there that he discovered one of her paintings.

Uhde procured the painter the large canvases that she needed for her paintings. For Séraphine painting was an act, their pictures were as it were in a trance. From 1930 she began increasingly to suffer from symptoms of a mental illness and probably squandered as a result their money. On February 15, 1932, she was admitted to the mental hospital of Clermont -sur- l'Oise. There Séraphine Louis died in 1942 at the age of 78 years. It rests at the local cemetery in a mass grave.

Exhibitions

Paintings of Séraphine de Senlis were already present in their lifetime in various exhibitions to naive art, after her death, they were accepted as a French contribution to the Biennale in São Paulo. There were other posthumous group exhibitions and finally solo exhibitions.

Work

Séraphine de Senlis is jointly owned by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) to known naive painters of France. She left behind an extensive work mystical- religious backgrounds. The mostly abstracted floral motifs testify to a highly suggestive imagination. The cultural historian Harald Keller presented in 2008 a connection between the use of Séraphine Louis colors and their intense, ' psychedelic ' seeming imagery. Louis worked proven highly toxic material, apply for today's strict protection rules. As a studio served her tiny living room where they ate and slept. From corresponding symptoms of poisoning, which can cause illusions and delusions, may therefore be assumed.

After the artist's death her ​​work underwent general appreciation. Anatole Jakovsky described the painter as one of the most naive painters of the world and of all time.

The first acquired by Wilhelm Uhde works by the artist were confiscated and sold during the First World War. Their location is not known. Museums showcase the paintings of Séraphine de Senlis, the Museum Charlotte Zander in Boennigheim with the largest collection of works by Séraphine, also the Clemens Sels Museum in Neuss, the Musée National d' Art Moderne in Paris are ( The Red Tree, in 1927/28 ), the Musée Maillol in Paris (7th Arrondissement ), the Musée International d'Art Naif Anatole Jakovsky in Nice, the Musée du vieux château - in Laval ( Mayenne ), the Musée d'art in Senlis, the Musée d'art naïf in Béraut (Gers) and the Musée d'art naïf in Vicq ( Yvelines). Other works are in private ownership.

Film

Séraphine: The extraordinary life story of Séraphine inspired the director Martin Provost to the biopic Séraphine ( premiere 1 October 2008). The script was written by Martin Provost, together with Marc Abdelnour. The Belgian actress Yolande Moreau embodies the painter, Ulrich Tukur art collector Wilhelm Uhde. Furthermore, played in the film Anne Bennents ( Anne Marie Uhde, sister), Geneviève Mnich ( Madame Duphot ), Nico Rogner ( Helmut Kolle ), Adélaïde Leroux ( Minouche ), Serge Larivière ( Duval ) Françoise Lebrun ( the head of the Order ).

The movie won seven César Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress ( Yolande Moreau ) in 2009.

Literature and Film

• Bertrand Lorquin, Wilhelm Uhde, Jan- Louis Derenne: Séraphine de Senlis. Exhibition catalog. Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-07-012237-0 (also Fondation Dina Vierny, Musée Maillol, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-910826-51-2 ).
• Françoise Cloarec: La vie de rêvée Séraphine de Senlis. Editions Phebus, 2008, ISBN 978-2-7529-0364-8.
• Jean -Pierre Foucher: Séraphine de Senlis. Collection L' Oeil du temps, Paris 1968.
• Wilhelm Uhde: Cinq maîtres Primitifs. Paris 1949.
• Alain Vircondelet: Séraphine de Senlis. Collection " Une Vie ", Albin Michel, Paris, 1986, ISBN 2-226-02702-5.
• Alain Vircondelet: Séraphine de la peinture à la folie. Albin Michel, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-226-18982-0.
• Hans grains, Manja Wilkens: Séraphine Louis 1864-1942. Life and work. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-496-01405-8.
• Schweers, Andrea: Séraphine Louis ( 1864-1942 ). Painter of Mary's grace. In: Duda, Sibylle; Pusch, Louise F. (ed.): Women's madness. Pp. 39-70. Suhrkamp, ​​Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, 2493, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-38993-9.
• Harald Keller: fixes. The art world and their cleaning ladies. In: Kahlert, Barbara and Spilker, Rolf (ed. ): The cleaning lady. From the maids to the cleaning lady. Catalog for the exhibition at the Museum of Industrial Culture Osnabrück 2008 .. Rapidly, Bramsche 2008, ISBN 978-3-89946-112-1. , Pp. 102-119.
• Ulrich Tukur: The Musical. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-550-08030-2.