Lou Albert LASARD (1885-1969)
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Lou Albert Lasard (Louise Albert Lasard, dit) est un peintre née en 1885 à Metz et décédée en 1969 à Paris..
De 1908 à 1914, elle suit des études artistiques, d'abord à Munich, puis à Paris. En 1909, elle épouse Eugene Albert (1856–1929) et prend le nom Albert-Lasard.
Mais Lou ne tarde pas à rencontrer le poète Rainer Maria Rilke, en 1914, avec lequel elle a une relation riche et passionnée jusqu'en 1916.
Elle accède à un environnement artistique, dont sont familiers, par exemple, Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig, Paul Klee et Oskar Kokoschka.
Après un séjour de deux années en Suisse, Lou Albert-Lasard rejoint l'association d'artistes expressionnistes nommée Novembergruppe, à Berlin.
Ses travaux sont alors essentiellement composés de portraits, dessinés, de ses amis. En 1928, elle s'établit à Paris où elle fait partie de la communauté d'artistes du Montparnasse. Elle se lie d'amitié avec Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti et Robert Delaunay.
Albert-Lasard part souvent en voyage avec sa fille en Afrique du Nord, en Inde, au Tibet et dans d'autres contrées. Les dessins et aquarelles qu'elle en rapporte seront exposés dès 1939.
En mai 1940, Lou Albert-Lasard et sa fille sont internées au de camp de Gurs, dont elles sont libérées dès le mois d'août 1940.
Dans les années 1950, elle passe la plupart de son temps à voyager avec sa fille, dans une caravane. Elle en reproduit ses impressions à travers des aquarelles et des lithographies.
Lou Albert Lasard est venue à Bréhat et à plusieurs reprises, notamment au printemps 1914.
Lou Albert-Lasard (1885 in Metz – July 1969 in Paris)[1] was an Expressionist painter.
She was born in 1885 in Metz (then part of Germany), daughter to a Jewish banking family. From 1908 until 1914, she studied art in Munich, where she and her sister, Ilse Heller-Lazard lived, and then in Paris. [2] In 1909, she married Eugene Albert[1], a chemist 30 years her senior, (1856–1929) and had a daughter, Ingo de Croux-Albert (1911–1997). Separating from her husband, she studied with the artist Fernand Léger. She also had connections with the Belgian avant-garde magazine "Het Overzicht", which was directed by Michel Seuphor and Jozef Peeters.
In 1914-1916, while still legally married, she had an affair with German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke. She lived with Rilke from 1914 until 1916 in Vienna, and moved in an artist circle that included, among others, Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig, Paul Klee, and Oskar Kokoschka. After breaking up with Rilke, she lived in Switzerland.
After 12 years in Switzerland, she moved to Berlin and joined an avant-garde artist group known as the Novembergruppe. Her work consisted mainly of drawings and etchings of her friends. In 1928, she returned to Paris and was part of the Montparnasse art society. She befriended Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and Robert Delaunay.
She traveled with her daughter to North Africa, India, Tibet, and other countries. Drawings and watercolors from these travels were shown in 1939.
In May, 1940, she and her daughter were interned at Gurs in southwestern France[1], but were later released. While imprisoned, she painted and drew portraits of fellow prisoners and camp scenes. Several of her works signed done in Gurs(signed "Mabull") are included in the art collection of Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (The Ghetto Fighters' House Museum).[3]
After her release, she returned to Paris[4]. In her 50s, she again traveled with her daughter, often in a mobile home, painting her experiences via watercolor and lithography.
