Victor Prouvé
{{short description|French painter}}
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Victor Prouvé ({{IPA|fr|viktɔʁ pʁuve}} was born 13 August 1858 in Nancy, and died on 15 February 1943 at Sétif (Algeria)). He was a French painter, sculptor and engraver of the Art Nouveau École de Nancy.
Biography
He designed decors of glass works and furniture for Émile Gallé. He worked for Eugène Vallin, Fernand Courteix, the Daum Brothers and Albert Heymann. He worked on book bindings with Camille Martin and the bookbinder René Wiener.
In 1888, he discovered Tunisia, which influenced the light of his paintings.
In 1890 he went with the dissenting artists to the new Société des Beaux-Arts.{{cite book |title=Biographical Dictionary of Medallists|first1=Prouvé, Émile Victor|publisher=Spink & Son Ltd|location=London|author=L. Forrer|volume=IV|year=1909|pages=701–703}}
He became the second president of the École de Nancy at Émile Gallé's death, in 1904. From 1919 to 1940, he took the direction of the [http://www.ensa-nancy.fr/ School of Fine Arts of Nancy].
He was the father of architect and designer Jean Prouvé (1901–1984).
Beyond his contributions to painting and sculpture, Victor Prouvé also ventured into jewelry design, creating pieces such as waist belts and brooches. His jewelry work displays a sculptural quality, characterized by intentional composition and fluid modeling. Crafted with precision by M. Rivaud, these creations reflect Prouvé’s distinctive approach to wearable art.{{Cite book |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49559 |title=Modern Design in Jewellery and Fans |date=2015-07-31 |editor-last=Holme |editor-first=Charles |language=English}}
Works
Selection of works by Victor Prouvé :
File:Les voluptueux 9727.JPG|The voluptuous (1889)
File:L'aube 09679.JPG|Dawn (L'Aube), 1900
File:La joie de vivre Victor Prouvé 0723.JPG|The joy of life (1904)
File:Victor Prouvé Bellieni 1903.jpg|Poster for Bellieni binoculars (1903)
File:Piano à queue La Mort du cygne.jpg|The death of the swan (1905)
File:Salle à manger art nouveau (Musée de lEcole de Nancy) (8029194773).jpg|Masson dining room (1903-1906)
Bibliography
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- Edmonde Charles-Roux (et al.), Victor Prouvé : voyages en Tunisie (1888–1890): dessins, aquarelles, huiles, exhibition catalogue, Éditions Serpenoise (Metz), 1999, 95 p. {{ISBN|2876924129}}.
- Jean-Paul Midant, L'art nouveau en France, Les Éditions du Carrousel (Paris), 1999, 174 p.
- Madeleine Prouvé, Victor Prouvé, 1858–1943, preface of Jean Lurçat, Berger-Levrault (Paris), 1958, 204 p.
- Jean Perrin, « La collaboration entre Émile Gallé et Victor Prouvé », in Annales de l'Est, special issue, 2005, pp. 199–210[http://www.academie-stanislas.org/Galle/17-Perrin.pdf Whole text] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319233620/http://www.academie-stanislas.org/Galle/17-Perrin.pdf |date=2014-03-19 }}.
- Anne-Laure Carré, Victor Prouvé, 1858–1943, catalogue of the eponym exhibitions presented in Nancy from 17 May to 21 September 2008, Paris/Nancy, Gallimard/City of Nancy, 2008, 299 pages.[http://dht.revues.org/622 Presentation of the catalogue by Anne-Laure Carré put online on 27 September 2010, retrieved 19 March 2014.]
- Christian Debize, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Sophie Harent, Emmanuelle Héran, Blandine Otter, Bénédicte Pasques, Jérôme Perrin, Philippe Thiébaut and Claude Tillier, Victor Prouvé (1858–1943), Gallimard, Paris, 2008, 306 p., 463 ill., {{ISBN|9782070120703}}.[http://histara.sorbonne.fr/cr.php?cr=397 Victor Prouvé (1858–1943)]. Report by Samuel Toutain.
- Danielle Birck, [http://www1.rfi.fr/francefr/articles/102/article_67154.asp « École de Nancy : la preuve par Prouvé, Victor »], on the site of [http://www.rfi.fr Radio France International].
Notes and references
External links
- [http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=victor-prouve Victor Prouvé] on the site of the [http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/ École de Nancy].
- [http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=parcours-prouve Victor Prouvé – The École de Nancy years].
- [http://gw.geneanet.org/garric?lang=en;p=victor;n=prouve Victor Prouvé] on the [http://www.geneanet.org GeneaNet] website.
- [http://wwwcano.lagravure.com/2prouve_dessins_aquarelles.htm#BIO Victor Prouvé] on the site of [http://wwwcano.lagravure.com/index.htm Galerie Laurencin] in Lyons.
- [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=who%3Aprouvé+victor&rows=24 Scanned works of Victor Prouvé] in the [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/ Europeana] website.
- [http://www.artactu.com/victor-prouve-et-l-art-nouveau-a-nancy-article00156.html Victor Prouvé exhibitions in Nancy in 2008].
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