Jacques Démoulin
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{{Short description|French painter and printmaker}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|12|07}}
| birth_place = Bohain, France
| death_date = {{death date|1991|11|29}}
| death_place = Acquigny, France
| nationality = French
| field = Painter
| training =
| movement = Cubism, Expressionism
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Jacques Démoulin (7 December 1905, in Bohain – 29 November 1991, in Acquigny),{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/benezit/search?isQuickSearch=true&q=Jacques+D%C3%A9moulin&searchBtn=Search&siteToSearch=benezit|title=Search Results for Jacques Démoulin|website=Oxfordartonline.com|access-date=1 July 2022}} was a French ballet dancer and painter.
Biography
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In 1923 after three years of evening drawing lessons at the school of the city of Paris, he entered the school of applied arts. Genre scenes, landscapes, still-lifes, flowers, portraits. Jacques Démoulin studied at the École des Arts Appliqués and the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and under Bernard Naudin and Jules Adler.{{Cite web|url=https://geneafrance.com/france/deces/?deces=14542398|title=Jacques Henri Emile DEMOULIN Base de données des décès de l'insee |website=Geneafrance.com|access-date=1 July 2022}}
From 1924, he began his career as a painter.
In 1926, he also took classes at the theater workshop directed by Charles Dullin. After a few roles, he discovered dance thanks to Anna Stephann and left the theater to devote himself to a career as a dancer.
In 1929 he joined the troupe of the Russian Opera in Paris, then the Paris Opera where he danced in most of the ballets directed by Serge Lifar{{Cite web|url=https://www.letelegramme.fr/ar/viewarticle1024.php?aaaammjj=20040830&article=8577509&type=ar|title=Hommage au peintre Jacques Demoulin|date=30 August 2004|website=Letelegramme.fr|access-date=1 July 2022}} (Sergei Diaghilev troupe).
He remained at the Opera for 13 years, while continuing his work as a painter and press illustrator.
From 1952 he moved from neo-cubism to expressionism in pictorially. He met many personalities of Arts and Letters such as Picasso, Louis Leiris, Picabia and especially H. D. Kahnveiller with whom he spent his holidays.
A unionized dancer, he fights and obtains equal pay for dancers.
In 1953, while on vacation in Morbihan, he discovered the burial mounds of Gravrini (-3000 BC) and in particular the engraved stones, which would notoriously influence his work for many years.
In 1970 settled in Normandy, he became a member of the UAP SER.
References
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Notes
- Bénézit 2011: Démoulin, Henri Émile Jacques
External links
- [http://www.uapser.org/spip.php?article244 Démoulin - Union des Arts Plastiques de Saint Etienne du Rouvray] Jacques Démoulin; uapser.org (Union des Arts Plastiques de Saint Etienne du Rouvray)
- [https://www.artland.com/artists/jacques-demoulin Jacques Démoulin]; artland
- [http://www.passeursdedanse.fr/pdf/Emilie_gerin_art_et_danse.pdf DANSE ET PEINTURE: Jacques Demoulin (1905-1991), p.32]; pdf; passeursdedanse.fr
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Category:20th-century French painters
Category:French landscape artists
Category:French cubist artists