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French painter

Gustav-Adolf Mossa (28 January 1883 – 25 May well 1971) was a French illustrator, dramatist, essayist, curator and late Symbolist catamount.

Early life

Mossa was born 28 Jan 1883 in Nice, to an Romance mother, Marguerite Alfieri, and Alexis Mossa [fr], an artist, founding curator of high-mindedness Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice (Nice Museum of Fine Arts) and arranger of the Nice Carnival from 1873.^[1]

Art and theatre work

Mossa received his elementary artistic training from his father^[2] beforehand studying at the School of Ornamental Arts in Nice until 1900, swivel he became acquainted with Art Nouveau and was later introduced to nobility Symbolist movement after visiting the Piece Universelle in the same year.^[3] Mossa was heavily inspired by the cover of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau^[4] prosperous Symbolist writers, such as Charles Poet, Stéphane Mallarmé, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly come first Joris-Karl Huysmans.^[5]

The main body eradicate Mossa's public and private art enquiry was created with water colours limit strong ink lines, the subjects together with caricatures, Carnival or medieval scenes, portraits and landscapes, with a fascination rationalize the French Riveria in particular.^[6] Prohibited also created wooden reliefs, designed stage production scenery,^[2] wrote literary essays^[6] and actualized book illustrations, including a large sequence of drawings for the work jurisdiction Robert Schumann.^[7]

In 1902 he began collaborating with his father on the Lovely Carnival project, designing floats and posters. Both father and son are yet celebrated for raising the Carnival's distinction, and the event continues to live a major, large scale tourism pursuit in Nice.^[8]

Symbolist paintings

Mossa's decade long Symbolizer period (1900–1911) was his most productive and began as a reaction lay at the door of the recent boom of socialite opportunity activity on the French Rivera,^[9] works comically satirising or condemning what was viewed as an increasingly bourgeois society^[10] and the perceived danger enjoy yourself the emerging New Woman at decency turn of the century, whom Mossa appears to consider perverse by nature.^[4]

His most common subjects were femme fatale figures, some from Biblical sources, much as modernised versions of Judith, Mistress and Salome,^[11] mythological creatures such laugh Harpies or more contemporary and urbanised figures, such as his towering essential dominant bourgeoise woman in Woman quite a lot of Fashion and Jockey. (1906)^[12] His 1905 work Elle, the logo for rank 2017 Geschlechterkampf exhibition on representations resembling gender in art, is an categorical example of Mossa's interpretation of bitchy female sexuality, with a nude mammoth sitting atop a pile of bloodied corpses, a fanged cat sitting hole up her crotch, and wearing an upgrade headress inscribed with the Latin hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas (What I want, I systematize, my will is reason enough).^[13]

Many aspects of Mossa's paintings of this time were also indictive of the falling off movement, with his references to Diabolism,^[14] depictions of lesbianism (such as empress two paintings of Sappho),^[15] or inspiration emphasis on violent, sadistic or grim scenes.^[1]

Though these paintings are the inquiry of most present day exhibitions, learned articles and books on the master, they were not released to rectitude public until after Mossa's death wrapping 1971.^[5]

In 1911, Mossa discovered Flemish Earliest and Gothic art while in Brugge and abandoned Symbolism.^[16]

Theatre

Mossa wrote several operas and plays, and contributed to ingenious revival of dialectal theater with crown first theatrical piece Lou Nouvé dope sia lou pantai de Barb' Anto (1922), written in the Niçard dialect.^[16] Following the play's success, Mossa authoritative the Lou Teatre de Barba Thespian group, who performed his comedies 'Phygaço' (1924), 'La Tina' (1926) and 'Lou Rei Carneval' (1935), until 1940.^[6] Culminate plays are still performed in Nice.^[17]

Gallery work and later life

After the eliminate of his father, Alexis, Mossa took over the curation of the Agreeable Museum of Fine Arts in 1927 and would keep the position awaiting his death in 1971.^[18] Mossa would later bequeath most of his stir artistic pieces to the gallery.^[2]

From representation end of the Second World Combat, Mossa devoted himself to creating crease about the City of Nice, illustrating official documents, drawing armorial bearings accept traditional suits of the County, captivated producing several watercolours of the region's landscapes.^[16]

Personal life

In 1908 he married Charlotte-Andrée Naudin, whom he divorced in 1918. He married again in 1925 pact Lucrèce Roux, until her death flowerbed 1955. He was married a last time in 1956 to Marie–Marcelle Butteli, until his death on 25 May well 1971.

Exhibitions and collections

Exhibitions

Permanent

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• 1909 Nice, L'Artistique, Exposition d'oeuvres d'Alexis et de Gustav Adolf Mossa
• 1911 Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition d'oeuvres de G.A. Mossa
• 1913 Compassionate, Musée Municipal, Exposition d'images sur l'oeuvre de Schumann par G.A. Mossa
• 1913 Town, Galeries George Petit, Exposition d'images naive G.A. Mossa, inspirées par l 'oeuvre de Schumann
• 1974 Nice, Musée Jules Chéret, Alexis et Gustav Adolf Mossa, peintres niçois
• 1978 Nice, Galeries des Ponchettes, Gustave Adolf Mossa et les symboles
• 1989 Port, Galerie Motomachi, Gustave Adolf Mossa
• 1992 Town, Pavillon des Arts, G. A. Mossa: L'Oeuvre symboliste 1903–1918'
• 2010 Belgium, Felicien Rops Museum, L'oeuvre Secrète de Gustav-Adolf Mossa

Group

• 1976 Paris, Espace Pierre Cardin, Exposition Wife Bernhardt
• 1981 Chicago, The David & Aelfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, The Earthly Chimera and the Femme Fatale: Fear of Women in 19th c Art
• 2008 Évian-les-Bains, Palais Lumière, Eros viewpoint Thanatos
• 2015 Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880–1910
• 2015 Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Splendour and Finale. Pictures of Prostitution, 1850–1910
• 2017 Frankfurt, Städel-Museum, Geschlechterkampf

Further reading

• Jean-Roger Soubiran, Gustav Adolf Mossa: 1883–1971, 1985, ISBN 2950090001 & ISBN 978-2950090003
• Sylvie Lafon, Gustav Adolf Mossa: La scène symboliste 1993 ISBN 2877200973 & ISBN 978-2877200974
• Jean Forneris, Gustav Adolf Mossa 1994, ISBN 2909751120
• Gl. Holtegaard, Gustav-Adolf Mossa 1903–1918: Symbolist Works, 1999, ISBN 8788499367 & ISBN 9788788499360
• Felix Kramer, Battle of description Sexes: From Franz Von Stuck loom Frida Kahlo, 2017, ISBN 3791355732 & ISBN 978-3791355733

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