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Roland Paris Bronze Art Deco The Clown
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Art Deco bronze with green and brown patina around 1930.
Bronze clown on Portor marble base.
Signed Roland Paris on the embankment.
Notes of micro scratches on the marble.
Total height: 53cm
Base: 13cm x 46.5cm
Weight: 16 Kg
Friedrich Richard Roland Paris (March 18, 1894 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary - May 4, 1945 in Swinemünde, Germany) was a German caricaturist, writer of satirical verse, graphic designer, painter and Art Deco sculptor.
Roland Paris attended the Grand-Ducal Realgymnasium in Weimar from 1905. From 1909, he was a student at the Saxon Grand-Ducal School of Applied Arts in Weimar. Here, in 1912, he received second and third prizes as well as 25 points in a competition for the design of emblems for student associations, which he continued to produce for two or three years. Some of these works showed the influence of Art Nouveau, others included more modern approaches. In 1912, Paris took a course in sculpture at the Saxon Grand-Ducal School of Art in Weimar with the sculptor Gottlieb Elster. He then went to Munich, where he completed internships with several sculptors. In 1913, he returned to the school of Fine arts in Weimar and studied painting with Walther Klemm.
In June 1915 he received his call up order for the Eastern Front of World War I and served first in a commando unit and then in the Air Force Inspectorate (IdFlieg) . After his return in 1919, he settled in Berlin. In 1924 he married Elisabeth Lisl Austen (b. 1897), a dancer at the Théâtre des Westens who modeled most of his female characters; he depicted himself for the facial parts of his male characters. The marriage remained childless. Their shared one-bedroom apartment in the backyard of Xantener Strasse 11 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf was also the Paris Studio, where he designed and made many of his sculptures, as well as graphics and paintings, newspaper cartoons, posters, postcards and applied arts such as luminous objects, bookends or cane buttons. The central figures in his sometimes grotesque sculptures were mostly Commedia dell'arte characters such as Pierrot, Columbine, Mephisto, Harlequin or the Fool. The statuette founder Ernst Kraas (1852-1935), with whom Paris had a friendly, if not paternal relationship, launched the production of his metal statuettes. Some of his figurines were made of porcelain by the porcelain art workshops of Unterweißbach and the doll maker Ernst Heubach.
His publishing house Roland Paris was also at the address of his apartment. Graphic design and art, literature, which he founded in 1919 with a share capital of 10,000 marks. His brother Siegfried worked as an authorized officer in the company. With this publishing house he published, among other things, his series of woodcuts Dancers, Carnival and Hell Reigen as well as his etchings and lithographs entitled Light Blood and Ghosts. Paris exhibited his sculptures in 1921 at the town hall of Schöneberg (Tempelhof), in 1924 in his studio, in 1933 (works by Trollpilz) with his brother-in-law Wilhelm Facklam at the Marienpalais in Schwerin and in 1934 both at the Bergwaldtheater Weißenburg (Egon Schmid ) and at the Haus der Kunstfreunde (Wilmersdorf). , graphic works and paintings. He also regularly participated in the Leipzig arts and crafts fair.
Paris was a member of the Wilmersdorf Artists' Association and – like all practicing artists during the National Socialist period – a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts, but not a member of the NSDAP. As the 1936 Summer Olympics approached, the weekly Die Grüne Post published its series of cartoon-like caricatures entitled Hoppel, a short, kind, pointed man with a prominent behind who claims to be a great sportsman but is makes him incompetent and whose efforts never end in disaster. The only book published in Paris, a humorous 1939 anthology of poetry and caricatures titled Strange People (d'hier et.), subtly criticized the system. He left some unfinished manuscripts such as Comic Truths, Bizarre Characters or the lyrical poems of Moortüpfel.
Paris' work did not fit into the mainstream of art under National Socialism, and although his sculpture Glider, cast by Ernst Kraas, was commissioned by Hermann Göring as a Challenge Prize and awarded each year for the best performance among the glider pilots of the National Socialist Flying Corps Mitte[ 2], his artistic success dwindled during the 1930s and stopped in 1942 when he had to close his publishing house.
In August 1943, he was called up for military service during the Second World War despite his age of 49. He was first assigned to a training division for new warships of the German Navy at Swinemünde. He then did service in the reception of goods, then with the construction team of the professional maritime school "Nid".
- Creator:Roland Paris (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 20.87 in (53 cm)Width: 18.31 in (46.5 cm)Depth: 5.12 in (13 cm)
- Style:Art Deco (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1930
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Notes of micro scratches on the marble.
- Seller Location:NANTES, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7403233172602
Roland Paris
Roland Paris was born into a German artistic family in Vienna in 1894. He was a student of Henry van de Velde and Gottlieb Elster at the Weimarer Kunstgewerbeschule, before moving to Berlin to study sculpture. His work is often satirical and idiosyncratic, specializing in bronze and ivory figures, lamp bases and ceramics.
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