BLANC & DEMILLY (act.c.1924-1962) Paule de Lestang

BLANC & DEMILLY (act.c.1924-c.1962)

Théo Blanc spent his childhood in the Lyon peninsula, between the Rhône and the Saône, and naturally "entered the silk industry": he worked as a clerk and then as an order manager with China. In 1918, he married a work colleague, Marcelle Bron, one of Edouard Bron's two daughters, whose father he liked to be a photographer, himself being a fervent amateur of photography.
Antoine Demilly, his contemporary since he was born in 1892, entered the Bron studio in 1910 as an apprentice. In 1920, he married Adrienne, the eldest of two sisters. In 1924, Théo Blanc and Antoine Demilly succeeded their father-in-law and embarked on a career as portrait painters of the Lyon bourgeoisie.In Lyon, the “Blanc et Demilly” studio was, from the 1920s to the 1950s, the most important in the city.
Evolving in a cultural and artistic environment more open than the Parisian circles, Blanc and Demilly display a deliberate desire to build a work on the fringes of the dominant currents. They were not, however, insensitive to the modernist currents of the time. Certain images undoubtedly evoke the work of the German photographer Germaine Krull, the German photojournalist Umbo, the American photographer Berenice Abbott, or even the Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy, painter, photographer and theoretician of photography. Thus, Blanc, alongside a great rigor in his conception of the portrait - simplicity, truth, proscription of retouching - says he wants to "seek the fantasy and even the unreal". Refusing to be anecdotal, Blanc and Demilly provide us with photographs without any artifice, imbued with humility.

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PAULE DE LESTANG (1875-1968)

From a family from the North of France who settled in Lyon after the Franco-German war of 1870, Pauline Caloin was born in Lyon on December 12, 1875. From the age of three, she showed artistic and is heard as a pianist in the concerts organized by his father, music teacher and organist of the Church of the Redemption [1]. She entered the Conservatoire de Lyon, where she studied harp and keyboard, then, having won a First Prize for piano at the age of fifteen, she took up harmony with the director Aimé Gros (1839-1901). Her marriage in 1893 to André Borel de Lestang, with whom she had a son killed in the war in 1917, however forced her to leave the conservatory. But, on the advice of Gabriel Fauré who had spotted her in 1898 during one of her visits to Lyon, she soon devoted herself to singing and led a double career, as a singer and a pianist.

After a favorable start, it was heard in 1898 and 1899 at the symphonic concerts created by two professors at the Conservatory, Joseph Jemain (1864-1954) and Hippolyte Mirande (1862-19..), at the Salle Philharmonique du quai Saint-Antoine . Paule de Lestang made a name for herself in Lyon in 1905 at the Grands concerts that G.M. Witkowski had just created, but also at those that the young musicologist Léon Vallas - whom she would marry for the second time in 1936 - instituted under the aegis of the Revue musicale of Lyon with the aim of serving young music. Until the First World War, his voice revealed to the Lyon public the melodies of Claude Debussy, Henri Duparc, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky and the young Maurice Ravel.

His fame as a performer soon spread to Paris where four singing recitals, devoted to contemporary French masters, were given at the Salle Pleyel in January and February 1912. They brought him consecration. Between the wars, she was regularly called to the capital to sing new works, either at the former National Society or at the Independent Musical Society, where she created many pages in the presence of authors, such as the first essays by a young composer: Georges Auric (1899 -1983).

After the war, she devoted her activity to concerts and teaching. To her talents as singer and pianist, are now added those of harpsichordist. She acquired a mastery there, as evidenced by the sessions given between 1919 and 1925 at the "Petits concerts" organized by Léon Vallas where, in turn singer, pianist and harpsichordist, she performed more than half of the works offered there. She is also responsible for teaching singing at the Conservatory, then piano accompaniment, a discipline that will mark two generations of students. She formed there, for example, under the title of "Chœur de chambre", a female choir recruited from among her best disciples. Taking advantage of a leave, she undertook two series of concerts in the United States, in Washington and New York in 1933 and 1935, or even recorded at the end of the 1920s a few records for Gramophone - "La Voix de son master".

Reaching the age limit, Paule de Lestang left the Conservatory in 1942, but continued to welcome many professionals from the world of music who came to seek her advice in her studio on rue Vendôme. She died on June 16, 1968 in Lyon.

Source: www.bm-lyon.fr

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