Jacques Démoulin (7 December 1905, in Bohain – 29 November 1991, in

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), was a French ballet dancer and painter.

Biography

In 1923 after three years of evening drawing lessons at the school of the city of Paris, he entered the school of applied arts. Genre scenes, landscapes, still-lifes, flowers, portraits. Jacques Démoulin studied at the

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in Paris and under

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. From 1924, he began his career as a painter. In 1926, he also took classes at the theater workshop directed by

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. After a few roles, he discovered dance thanks to Anna Stephann and left the theater to devote himself to a career as a dancer. In 1929 he joined the troupe of the Russian Opera in Paris, then the Paris Opera where he danced in most of the ballets directed by

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(

Sergei Diaghilev Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ( ; rus, Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, , sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario an ...

troupe). He remained at the Opera for 13 years, while continuing his work as a painter and press illustrator. From 1952 he moved from neo-cubism to expressionism in pictorially. He met many personalities of Arts and Letters such as

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, Louis Leiris, Picabia and especially H. D. Kahnveiller with whom he spent his holidays. A unionized dancer, he fights and obtains equal pay for dancers. In 1953, while on vacation in Morbihan, he discovered the burial mounds of Gravrini (-3000 BC) and in particular the engraved stones, which would notoriously influence his work for many years. In 1970 settled in Normandy, he became a member of the UAP SER.

References

Notes

* Bénézit 2011: Démoulin, Henri Émile Jacques

External links

Démoulin - Union des Arts Plastiques de Saint Etienne du Rouvray
Jacques Démoulin; uapser.org (Union des Arts Plastiques de Saint Etienne du Rouvray)
Jacques Démoulin
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DANSE ET PEINTURE: Jacques Demoulin (1905-1991), p.32
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