Tériade

Tériade, and E. Tériade ( Stratis Eleftheriadis actually (Greek Στρατής Ελευθεριάδης ), born 2 May 1897 in Varia at Mytilene on Lesbos, † October 23, 1983 in Paris ) was a Greek- French art critic, art collector, editor and publisher. Tériade moved numerous artist's books by renowned artists of the modern age and was one of the most influential figures in the art world of Paris in the 1930s and the postwar period.

Life and work

Stratis Eleftheriades, after the final syllables of his birth name shortened to just " Tériade " or " E. Called Tériade ", was born the only son of a wealthy landowner in Varia, a suburb of Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos. At 18, he left Lesbos to first study law in Paris, but instead of following a career in law, he joined the flourishing Parisian art market to. From 1926 he published together with the also from Greece dating Christian Zervos ( 1889-1970 ) in Paris, 14, rue du Dragon, the art magazine Cahiers d'Art, which was one of the most prestigious publications of the Paris art market by the year 1960. Tériade responsible for the editorship of the magazine and began writing art criticism. At the same time he wrote for the evening newspaper L' Intransigeant and co-authored with Maurice Raynal satirical chronicles of the art scene, which they published as " The two blind men ." The late 1920s discovered and promoted Tériade the painter and sculptor André Beaudin.

Minotaur and verve, success as a publisher

Together with the coming from Switzerland publisher Albert Skira he founded in 1933, the surrealism related artists' magazine Minotaur, the contributions of all the major contemporary artists such as André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Fernand Léger, Man Ray, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso published. After discrepancies with Breton he left Minotaur 1936. Additional publications such as the artists newspaper La Bête Noire (1936) and the quarterly, luxurious foil made art journal Verve ( 1937-1960 ) followed. As Tériades predecessor sheet Minotaur crystallized Verve for sophisticated cultural journal, the texts of writers like Georges Bataille, André Gide and Jean -Paul Sartre with photographs by Brassaï and Man Ray showed paired or Bible illustrations by Marc Chagall.

With the entry of German troops into Paris in 1940 Tériade fled to his friend Henri Matisse in the Dordogne. With Matisse created numerous artist's books, such as the colorful paper cut - jazz album from 1947, one of the masterpieces of book art. Jazz was the first of a series of 27 other artists books that hung Tériade.

In the 1950s and 1960s to Tériade concentrated more on the Parisian scene photographer and published numerous collections of Édouard Boubat, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Izis and others. He left in 1972 in his birthplace Varia, a suburb of Mytilene, in addition to the local 1964 co-financed by him Theofilos Museum set up its own book museum. Opened in 1979, the Tériade Museum, in sixteen areas shows publications of the publisher, as well as original editions of magazines Tériades Minotaur and verve. The museum also includes 29 rare books with works by Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and other modern artists.

In 2000, bequeathed Alice Tériade that the publisher's widow, the full collection of the magazine Verve, the 27 artists' books and the associated 500 lithographs from the estate Tériades the Musée Matisse in Matisse's birthplace Le Cateau- Cambrésis, also left it there the Matisse build decorated dining room Tériades summer residence on the Côte d' Azur again.

Importance

Together with Christian Zervos Tériade decreed from the beginning of the 1930s to the mid 1970s is almost a monopoly over all Parisian art publications. Through his acquaintance with the important Modern artists Tériade is regarded as an important companion and documentary of the Paris art history.