Gustave Jaulmes
| Gustave Louis Jaulmes | |
|---|---|
| Born |
14 April 1873 Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Died | 7 January 1959 (aged 85) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Known for | Art Deco |
Gustave Louis Jaulmes (14 April 1873 – 7 January 1959) was an eclectic French artist who followed the neoclassical trend in the Art Deco movement. He created monumental frescoes, paintings, posters, illustrations, cartoons for tapestries and carpets and decorations for objects such as enamels, sets of plates and furniture.
Gustave Louis Jaulmes was born in Lausanne, Switzerland on 14 April 1873. He attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Jaulmes initially trained as an architect, and worked with Victor Laloux at the Gare d'Orsay before taking up painting. In 1902 he abandoned architecture, and after a few months in the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian he decided to become a decorative painter.
Jaulmes saw his work as a complement and extension of buildings, and made professional and personal links with architects such as Louis Süe. He became known for his monumental frescos and paintings, and for his posters and sets of decorative objects. He worked with Adrien Karbowsky on frescos for the Villa Kerylos and the Palais de Chaillot in 1902–08. They painted the walls of the villa with scenes from Greek mythology chosen by the scholar Théodore Reinach, often copied from Attic pottery. In 1909 Jaulmes and Karbowsky decorated the fashionable Royal-Hôtel in Évian-les-Bains. In 1912 Jaulmes joined other artists to create L'Atalier Français, a cooperative business that borrowed organizational idea from the Wiener Werkstätte. Other members included Louis Süe, Roger de La Fresnaye, André Groult, André Mare and the brothers André and Paul Vera. André Vera wrote a manifesto that defined the goal of the group as combining traditional and modern ideas to bring clarity, order and aesthetic unity to interior design.
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