Despiau, Charles
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Despiau, Charles (1874–1946). French sculptor and illustrator, born at Mont-de-Marsan, the son of a master-plasterer. In 1891 he moved to Paris, where he studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs, 1891–3, and the École des
Beaux-Arts, 1893–6. For several years he endured poverty, earning his living for a time by colouring postcards, and from 1907 to 1914 he worked as one of
Rodin's assistants. After this he turned from his master's intense, vigorous style to a more static, generalized manner in the vein associated with
Maillol. His best-known works are his portrait busts, with their intimate delineation of character (
Head of Madame Derain, Philips Collection, Washington, 1922). He also produced full-length nude figures, standing or seated, and made several monuments, including a war memorial at Mont-de-Marsan, 1920–2. The books he illustrated included an edition of Baudelaire's
Les Fleurs du mal (1933). In the 1920s and 1930s his reputation stood very high in France, but at the end of his life he was ostracized because of his friendship with the Nazi sculptor Arno
Breker (they had known each other since before the war and in 1942 Despiau attended an exhibition of the German's work in occupied Paris).
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; ...Matisee, Miro, Magritte, Gauguin, Rodin, Beckmann, Nolde, Munch, Kollwitz and Kandinsky as well as lesser known Charles Despiau and Ossip Zadkine and Eugene Berman. Berman's oil painting of a young man stretched out on a divan is so richly...
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BMA show thinks beyond the 'The Thinker'.
Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD); 8/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...Baltimore Museum of Art. The show presents nearly 30 works by the French master and such contemporaries as Edgar Degas, Charles Despiau, Pablo Picasso and Aristide Maillol. All the works in the show are drawn from the museum's permanent collection...
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; ...Acadmie de Bordeaux Central High School, BrookfieldHost Teacher: Mary MannExchange Teacher: Susan Hayter ofLyce Charles Despiau, Mont de Marsan La Follette High School, MadisonHost Teacher: Mary Alice SicardExchange Teacher: Martine Roufenche...
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The art of collaboration
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; ...consul to Paris, to glittering receptions at the German Institute. Chief among them were the names of the sculptor Charles Despiau, the poet and novelist Abel Bonnard, the pianist Alfred Cortot and Monseigneur Jean Mayol de Lupe - the priest who...
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Charles Despiau
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Charles Despiau , 1874-1946, French sculptor. He studied at the École des...forms of young women have often been compared with the works of Maillol. Despiau is known for his sensitive portrait busts; his Mme Derain (1922) is...
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Despiau, Charles
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Despiau, Charles (1874–1946). French sculptor and illustrator, born at...Arno Breker (they had known each other since before the war and in 1942 Despiau attended an exhibition of the German's work in occupied Paris).
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Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...neoclassicism in the manner of Aristide Maillol and Charles Despiau. In 1911 Duchamp-Villon executed a head, Baudelaire...and was far more stylized than anything by Maillol or Despiau. Forms are faceted and simplified and yet without any...
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Rodin, Auguste
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Henri Rochefort (1830 – 1913), and poet Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867). In the Head of...included Antoine Bourdelle (1861 – 1929) and Charles Despiau (1874 – 1946). In 1916 Rodin left his works...
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Douglas, Aaron 1899–1979
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...M.A, 1944; also attended L ’ Acad é mie Scandinave, Paris. Studied under Winold Reiss, Charles Despiau, Hemri Waroquier, Othon Frieze , and Dr. Jacqueline Bontemps Pioneering Harlem Renaissance artist known for black...
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