SYNOPSIS

: - REMBRANDT BUGATTI SCULPTOR - Répertoire monographique

  "BUGATTI"=Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio, Etats-Unis) 1999-/ "REMBRANDT BUGATTI"=Alte Nationalgalerie BERLIN 2014

VIII. 1909-1911 : Bugatti's time is entirely devoted to preparing for important exhibitions - The Ettore Bugatti factory is established in Molsheim , Alsace - Rembrandt Bugatti now faces his destiny alone - As Bugatti broadens his visual horizons, his sculptural vision is transformed - 1910: the Antwerp Exhibition and one-off casts (pièces uniques) - Bugatti is passionate about large ruminant mammals - The wild animals become familiar friends - The Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) and the American Bison (Bison bison) are already endangered species by the turn of the twentieth century - Hébrard's 1911 exhibition of one hundred sculptures - In Paris, the European avant-garde worked in a creative ferment - Isolated from his family and with dwindling funds, Bugatti suffers much hardship - Le Colosse nu, lutteur Olympique (The Nude Colossus) or the “übermensch” stripped bare

I. Who were Rembrandt Bugatti’s "fathers"? - Giovanni Segantini - Carlo Bugatti - Paolo Troubetzkoy - Giuseppe Grandi and Medardo Rosso - The Grubicy gallery and Bice Bugatti-Segantini - All’amico Borgatti

II. 1884-1902: Milan and the pre-Futurist period. - Milan - Ritorno dal Pascolo - Bugatti and photography - Bugatti : creator of the single moment in multiple dimensions - Albino Palazzolo - Ettore Bugatti

X. Rembrandt Bugatti se suicide le 8 janvier 1916. Aout 1914, Anvers : le désastre de la grande guerre, Bugatti devient brancardier. Décembre 1914 : Bugatti part à Milan rejoindre sa famille avec l'aide de palazzolo, il expose chez Grubicy. Mai 1915, Milan : Rembrandt Bugatti se porte volontaire, il est déja tuberculeux. Décembre 1915 : Bugatti revient à Paris, il se suicide le 8 janvier 1916. 1916 : le témoignage de son ami Milanais, l'architecte de Giulio Ulisse Urata. Pour son frère, Ettore Bugatti va reprendre le flambeau. Adrien Aurélien Hébrard va rouvrir la fonderie avec Albino Palazzo EPILOGUE : POUR LE REGARD TOUT EST CONTEMPORAIN. POUR UN NOUVEAU REGARD. Rembrandt Bugatti.Sculpteur Répertoire Monographique à paraître en Septembre 2009 - auteur : Veronique Fromanger.

IX. 1912 - 1916: The prevailing spirit of innovation is interrupted by the Great War - La Marchande de pommes (The Apple-seller) and the society portrait - The spirit of innovation meets the Belle Époque: a time of contrasts - Bugatti exhibits with Alberto Grubicy and the Futurists with Bernheim-Jeune - Bugatti is adept at capturing the language of animals; for fifteen years he met their gaze - Bugatti retrouve les grands rapaces au zoo d'Anvers - To capture a likeness of the animal before him, Bugatti's approach is at once a precise and complex work of synthesis - The Condors editioned by Claude Koenig and Rungwe Kingdon (Pangolin Editions) - The bronze casts made exclusively for Ettore Bugatti - As the year 1913 drew to a close, Bugatti wrote to a friend: "Now things are beginning to go well” - The Royal Bengal Tiger and The Siberian Tiger

III. Paris and the Jardin des Plantes - Carlo and Rembrandt Bugatti settle in Paris - The Ménagerie nationale at the Jardin des Plantes and the Museum d'Histoire naturelle - The renaissance of the natural sciences - Bugatti and wild animals - Panthers, his companions in life and work

IV. Bugatti, a modeller and mould-maker - Bugatti: “ I hope and indeed believe I am successful in creating a body of work which is quite unique.”Authentic , universal and timeless - Free hand modelling and plaster casting - The Rembrandt Bugatti gypsotheque and studio collection

X. The events leading to Rembrandt Bugatti's death on 8 January 1916 - Antwerp, August 1914 : the tragedy of the Great War. Bugatti became a stretcher-bearer - December 1914 : Bugatti left for Milan to rejoin his family. With Palazzolo' help he exhibited with Alberto Grubicy - Milan, May 1915 : Rembrandt Bugatti volunteered for war duties despite already suffering from tuberculosis - December 1915 : Bugatti returned to Paris. His suicide followed on 8 January 1916 - 1916 : an account written by Bugatti's friend, the Milanese architect Giulio Ulisse Arata - Ettore Bugatti takes up the torch for his brother - Adrien-Aurélien Hébrard reopens the foundry with Albino Palazzolo's help EPILOGUE : "TO THE EYE ALL IS CONTEMPORARY" TOWARDS A NEW VISION by Veronique Fromanger, Synopsis translated by Carla Briner

V. Paris, a leading light in the modern art trade - Paris, capital of the creative arts - Art dealers and the euphoria of progress - Sculpture, an art form difficult to sell and the ruin of the art dealers

VI. A.-A. Hébrard & Cie (1902-c.1934) - An alliance between art and industry - 1904: the first Rembrandt Bugatti exhibition at the Hébrard Gallery - Bugatti at twenty years old - The commercial contract ( Le contrat d'édition) - René Dubois - The A.-A Hébrard foundry: Albino Palazzolo and the workers - Hébrard and Rodin - A.-A.Hébrard or the authentic reproduction of an oeuvre d' art - A.A. Hébrard original editions (1902 – c.1934)

VII. 1903-1908 From Paris to Antwerp: a migratory bird on the wing - Bugatti in Paris, a witness of his time - Draught horses and bear tamers: the works (Le marché aux chevaux ) Les chevaux de trait et Le Montreur d'ours - Bugatti and domestic animals - Bugatti and the wild animals of the zoological gardens - Bugatti at the Antwerp Zoo, his open-air studio - Bugatti analyses the animal bond and communication - The Cervidae : a fiery spontaneity , the absolute vitality of matter or plastic dynamism - Bugatti and Valsuani - Bugatti and his passion for birds: pelicans, flamingos and storks - Bugatti compares himself to a Marabou Stork - In Montparnasse and the rue Duméril, Bugatti explored the theme of the nude - “ Sculpture is like a woman.” Kathleen Bruce , Dejanice Bugatti and Barbara Bugatti - The Seated Nude Colossus and Bugatti's friend Samuel Stockton White: Colosse nu assis and L'ami White at the Grubicy exhibition - Bugatti: ethologist and visual artist - Mes Antilopes (My Antelope) - The other mammals as powerful living architecture - Hippopotame baîllant - The wild animal trade , Asian elephants and jaguars - The Jaguars

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