Louise Hervieu
Louise Hervieu | |
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![]() Louise Hervieu in 1936 | |
Born | 26 October 1878 |
Died | 11 September 1954(1954-09-11) (aged 75) Versailles |
Louise Hervieu (26 October 1878 – 11 September 1954) was a French writer, artist, painter, draftsman, and lithographer.
Biography
Syphilitic of birth, of very fragile health, Louise Hervieu revealed a gift for drawing from her childhood. Discouraged after the failure of her unique exhibition of paintings in oil in 1910, she abandoned painting in favor of drawing and lithography. She illustrated les Fleurs du mal and le Spleen de Paris by Baudelaire. She published collections of drawings and novels that she embellished with her illustrations. She was close to the painter Edmond-Marie Poullain [fr], with whom she traveled several times to Bréhal. In 1915, the weakening of her sight forced her to go from color to black and white. A refined valorist, her technique of drawing in the wash or charcoal was characterized by the removal of certain parts of the surface of the work to obtain clear nuances by making reappear the white of the paper.
One of her works, le Bon Vouloir, was crowned by the Académie française and another one, Sangs, was awarded the prix Femina in 1936. This award allowed her to give great publicity to the battle she led throughout her life against this scourge that made her suffer constantly.
It is to Louise Hervieu that is also owed the attribution, obtained from a hard struggle in 1938, of a "health notebook", by the public authorities, to every newborn child, and in which would have been inscribed the antecedents of the parents, then all the care, all the diseases of the child, and then of the adult until his/her death, to serve in turn to keep his/her children and grandchildren healthy.
The Association Louise Hervieu for the establishment of the health notebook, was created for this purpose. On 1 June 1939, finally, a ministerial decree instituted the health card for the use of French citizens. This notebook unfortunately only had an ephemeral existence.
A retrospective of her works with those of Suzanne Valadon and Marie-Anne Camax-Zoegger [fr] was organised at the Musée Galliera of Paris, in 1961.
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The rue Louise Hervieu, a street in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, pays homage to her. A commemorative plaque is placed on rue du Cherche Midi [fr] in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, at number 55, where she lived.
Literary works
- 1921: Entretiens sur le dessin avec Geneviève, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
- 1927: Le Bon Vouloir, Librairie de France, Paris, distinguished by the Académie française.
- 1924: L’Âme du cirque, illustrations by Edmond Heuzé [fr], Librairie de France
- 1928: Montsouris, Émile-Paul frères, Paris
- 1936: Sangs, Éditions Denoël and Steele, Paris, prix Femina.
- 1937: Le Crime, Denoël
- 1942: Lettres à Lucy Krohg, Association
- 1943: Le malade vous parle, Denoël
- 1953: La Rose de sang, ou Le Printemps de la jeune Heredote, P. Cailler, Geneva
Pictorial works
- Illustrations
- Vingt nus, Librairie de France, Paris
- Les Fleurs du mal, Ollendorff, Paris, 1920
- Poèmes de Baudelaire, illustrations and foreword by Louise Hervieu, Textes Prétextes, Paris, 1946
- Réminiscences, Compagnie française des arts graphiques, Paris, 1946
- Liturgies intimes, Paul Verlaine, illustrations by Louise Hervieu, Éditions Manuel Bruker, 1948
- Musée national d’Art moderne de Paris
- Dédié à Baudelaire, before 1922
- Le Christ enchainé de Suippes, before 1922
- Nu dans un intérieur renaissance, before 1925
- La madeleine et le philosophe, before 1927
- Nu dans un intérieur de style, before 1927
- Choix de coquillages, before 1931
- Fleurs de cerisier, 1934
- Tête de clown, 1934
- Noir sur noir, 1934
- Fruits, 1934
- Vieux dieux chinois, 1934
- Massacre de cerf, 1934
- La pendule, before 1939
- Les pommes, c. 1941
- Les poires, c. 1941
- Le salon du carnet de santé
- Plumes
- Femme malade
- Musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques
- Coquillages et colliers, RF 36812, recto
- Nœud noir et plume d'autruche blanche, RF 40961, recto
- Vieille paysanne assise, de face, en train de coudre, RF 28788, recto
Bibliography
- Pierre Courthion, Panorama de la peinture française contemporaine, Simon Kra, 1927, (pp. 142–145)
- Claude Roger-Marx, Éloge de Louise Hervieu, Manuel Bruker Éditeur, 1953
- Guillaume d’Enfert, Louise Hervieu et Bretteville-sur-Ay. Hommage à Louise Hervieu, publié à l’occasion du 2e Salon des écrivains du terroir de Bretteville-sur-Ay, Éditions du Jardin d’Eden, 2004
- Sanchez Nelly, « Prix Femina 1936 : Sangs de Louise Hervieu », New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 2013, n°2, vol. 34, (pp. 41–54)
- Sanchez Nelly, « Louise Hervieu, dessinatrice et littératrice », La Corne de Brume, 2013, n°10, (pp. 41–46)
External links
- Official website of Louise Hervieu
- Louise Hervieu, du dessin au carnet de santé par Guillaume d’Enfert on CAIRN
- Louise Hervieu on WikiManche
- Louise HERVIEU (1878 - 1954) on Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
- HERVIEU Louise Jeanne Aimée (1878 -1964) on Artprecium
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- 1910 Marguerite Audoux
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- 1928 Dominique Dunois
- 1929 Georges Bernanos
- 1930 Marc Chadourne
- 1931 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1932 Ramon Fernandez [fr]
- 1933 Geneviève Fauconnier
- 1934 Robert Francis
- 1935 Claude Silve
- 1936 Louise Hervieu
- 1937 Raymonde Vincent
- 1938 Félix de Chazournes
- 1939 Paul Vialar
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- 1944 Éditions de Minuit (publisher)
- 1945 Anne-Marie Monnet
- 1946 Michel Robida
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- 2018 Philippe Lançon
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- 2020 Serge Joncour
- 2021 Clara Dupont-Monod
- 2022 Claudie Hunzinger [fr]
- 2023 Neige Sinno