Alfred Janniot. Monumental.
Norma Editions| N° d'inventaire | 25671 |
| Format | 24 x 32 |
| Détails | 176 p., richly illustrated, bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782376660576 |
Alfred Auguste Janniot (1889 - 1969), a renowned interwar sculptor, left his mark on his contemporaries with his monumental work, embracing and magnifying architecture, both in France and abroad. His two main works, the spectacular bas-reliefs for the Musée permanent des colonies (1931) and for the Palais de Tokyo (1937), still resonate in everyone's mind today. He also participated in the great adventure of transatlantic liners, working on Île-de-France (1926) and then Normandie (1935).
Winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1919, Janniot distinguished himself alongside the greatest architects, collaborating with Roger Séassal, Michel Roux-Spitz, Albert Laprade, Jacques d'Welles, Wallace Harrison, Jean Niermans and Pierre Patout. Whether in the round or monumental "stone tapestries", his numerous works reveal the artist's classical training acquired at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as a prolific creativity that can be found in the town hall of Puteaux (1932-1934), the Chamber of Commerce of Châteauroux (1934), the Maison Française at Rockefeller Center in New York (1934), the Bordeaux labor exchange (1935-1938) and the Greystones villa in Dinard (1938-1950).
Alfred Auguste Janniot (1889 - 1969), a renowned interwar sculptor, left his mark on his contemporaries with his monumental work, embracing and magnifying architecture, both in France and abroad. His two main works, the spectacular bas-reliefs for the Musée permanent des colonies (1931) and for the Palais de Tokyo (1937), still resonate in everyone's mind today. He also participated in the great adventure of transatlantic liners, working on Île-de-France (1926) and then Normandie (1935).
Winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1919, Janniot distinguished himself alongside the greatest architects, collaborating with Roger Séassal, Michel Roux-Spitz, Albert Laprade, Jacques d'Welles, Wallace Harrison, Jean Niermans and Pierre Patout. Whether in the round or monumental "stone tapestries", his numerous works reveal the artist's classical training acquired at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as a prolific creativity that can be found in the town hall of Puteaux (1932-1934), the Chamber of Commerce of Châteauroux (1934), the Maison Française at Rockefeller Center in New York (1934), the Bordeaux labor exchange (1935-1938) and the Greystones villa in Dinard (1938-1950).