Jean Frélaut

Jean Frélaut , born with Grenoble the 17 July 1879 and died in 1954, is a painter, engraver and illustrator French.

Biography

Its family settles in Brittany, close to Vannes, in which it is originating. In 1897, it enters the workshop of Fernand Cormon to the École of the fine arts of Paris. He learns the technique from the engraving of Marcel Beltrand and Donald Shaw Mac Lauglan.

It Marie with Elizabeth Pinasseau (1912). Mobilized, it is made chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1919. It takes part in the group of the Painters independent engravers, founded by Jean Emile Laboureur and Raoul Dufy starting from 1923.

It receives the price of French engraving to the Biennale de Venise (1934). It turns over food in Morbihan. In 1937, it is named preserving museum of Valves. It decorates with Jean Emile Laboureur and Pierre Dubreuil the National school with the Merchant navy.

The engraver

Jean Bersier thus describes it in 1948: “As of the day or Mac Langhlan initiated it with the trade of aquafortist, it applied, with a tough and considered will, to engrave in copper the intense love which it tested for the nature and the ground of his ancestral territory. Morbihan, hard and tended, lends itself magnificiently to descriptions of Frélaut. ”

The illustrator

the Pilgrim of the seven saints of Brittany of Joseph Guilbert (1938)
the Fables of Jean of the Fountain (1941)
Brière of Alphonse of Chateaubriant (1942)
Mister of Lourdines of Alphonse of Chateaubriant (1944)
Large Meaulnes of Alain Fournier (1946)
Holland of Georges Duhamel (1949)
the Romance of Renart (1950)
selected Poetries of Paul Verlaine prefaced by Pierre Mac Orlan, twenty original dry points of Jean Frélaut. Paris, Rainbow. (1953)
the Walker accompanied - Alexandre Arnoux (1948)
Poetries by Charles of Orleans (1948)

Collective works

Small towns of France of Emile Sedeyn with Edgar Chahine, Charles Hallo, Dauchez, Brouet, Gobo, Albert Decaris, Gusman, Paul Adrien Bouroux, Polat, Véder, Henry Cheffer, Maurice Victor Achener, Willaume, Cottet, Company of Eloy Saint, 1935-1937.
Almanac, book of worms , Emile Verhaeren, in this book intervene, for each month of the year of the different engravers: Paul Adrien Bouroux, Paul Baudier, Charles Hallo, Maurice Victor Achener, Eugene Corneau, Henry Cheffer, Adolphe Beaufrère, Camille Josso, Pierre-Yves Spring wheat, Lemagny, Robert Jeannisson, and Andre Vahl, Company of Eloy Saint, 1951.
Gone and Fairs of Paris , Léo Larguier, with Pierre-Yves Spring wheat, Henry Cheffer, Lemagny, Charles Hallo, Robert Jeannisson, Rene Cottet, Fernand Hertenberger, Paul Adrien Bouroux, Albert Decaris, Maurice Victor Achener, Josso, Company of Eloy Saint, 1953.

Bibliographical references

Jean E. Bersier, engraving processes and the history , the roundtable, 1948
Catalog of the exposure Jean Frélaut, a Master of engraving , Donation Jean Frélaut with the museum of the Thirties, Boulogne Billancourt.
Praise of Jean Frélaut by Jacques de Laprade.

Exposure

retrospective Exposure Donation Jean Frélaut, Museum of the Thirties, Boulogne Billancourt, January 23rd - April 22nd, 2007.

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