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Leo Rauth: Images

19 Tuesday Aug 2014

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Dance, Fashion, Sharing

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fashion design, fin de siècle, la Belle Otéro, Leo Rauth, modern dance, Oswin Haas, Ruth St. Denis, Schlangentanz

 
La Belle Otéro, Leo Rauth, 1910

La Belle Otéro, Leo Rauth, 1910

Ruth

Ruth St. Denis, Schlangentanz, Leo Rauth

All I can send you today are these images by Leo Rauth (1884 – 1913). They feature dancers one of whom is American modern dance “pioneer” (Wikipedia), Ruth St. Denis  (20 January 1879 – 21 July 1968), shown above performing a “snake dance,” without the snake. They also feature la Belle Otéro (4 November 1868 – 12 April 1965).  (Wikipedia)

Leo Rauth also designed rather “poetical” clothes.

I found a lovely piece of music by Oswin Haas.

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  • Leo Rauth’s “fin de siècle” Pierrot (27 June 2014)

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  • Leo Rauth (Tumbler website)
  • La Belle Otéro (Wikipedia)
  • La Belle Otéro (lockkeeper.com)
  • Google Images
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Fashion Design, Leo Rauth (Photo credit: Google images)

This may be one of my shortest posts, but I wanted to show more artworks by Rauth, who did a number of pochoirs. But more importantly, I wanted to keep in touch and send everyone my best regards.

 La Valse contente (The Happy Waltz)
“Piano Album With A Smile 2”: original easy to medium pieces from Oswin Haas.
 

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Leo Rauth’s “fin de siècle” Pierrot

27 Friday Jun 2014

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Comedy, Commedia dell'arte, Music

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a dandy, aestheticism, Antoine Watteau, commedia dell'arte, fin de siècle, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Leo Rauth, Oswin Haas, Pierrot, Symbolism, the sad clown, Valse contente by Oswin Haas

 
Pierrot et Colombine, by Leo Rauth

Pierrot et Colombine by Leo Rauth, 1911 postcard (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bal masque, Leo Rauth

Leo Rauth’s depictions of Pierrot are rooted in the Fêtes galantes of eighteenth-century France. He is loved by Colombine and he has a floured face. He is a smidgen decadent and his costume, flowing, not baggy. This is a sign of the times. Rauth was a fin de siècle (end of century) artist and very much an aesthete. He produced stylized and very thin figures.

 

A “ Fin de Siècle ” Pierrot

According to Britannica, the fin de siècle was characterized by “sophistication, escapism, extreme aestheticism, world-weariness, and fashionable despair.”[i] In other words, the “mal du siècle” had survived under such headings as “world-weariness” and “fashionable despair.” However, the Pierrot had acquired new facets. He was sophisticated and elegant. Symbolism had changed him. Leo Rauth’s Pierrot is both a sad and polished Pierrot, a “dandy,” and, perhaps, a salonnier.

Jean-Gaspard Deburau (31 July 1796 – 17 June 1846) gave Pierrot his “Janus-faced aspect.” (See Pedrolino, Wikipedia.) He made him into a sad clown. However, under his loose-fitting clothes, his impeccably starched ruff and his pompoms, Rauth’s Pierrot, formerly a zanno, a servant, had been transformed into a man-about-town, which does not preclude sadness. Rauth would bestow “fashionable despair” upon his Pierrot.

But the Pierrot is the Pierrot. We have read the scenario. His Columbina, featured at the top of this post, seems to love him. She is dancing with him. But Columbina loves the nimble Harlequin.

So, it was all a masquerade and the topsy-turvy world of the Roman Saturnalia and the Carnival season. On Shrove Tuesday, the bal masqué would end, but as depicted by Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – Paris, 10 January 1904), the end would not necessarily be consistent with the conventions of comedy. Gérôme’s (c. 1857-59) painting shows Pierrot wounded and perhaps dying after fighting a duel. On the right side of the painting, we see Harlequin walking away. He appears to be supporting another figure, which is confusing.

The Duel after the Masquerade, by Jean-Léon Gerome (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Duel after the Masquerade by Jean-Léon Gérôme (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

An Early Death

Leo Rauth (18 July 1884 – 9 January 1913) was born in Leipzig and studied art in Karlsruhe, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Venice. His art made him an overnight celebrity. He had obviously been influenced by Jean-Antoine Watteau (baptised 10 October 1684 – 18 July 1721) whose “best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet,” as would also be the case with Leo Rauth’s Pierrot. Watteau is also an important figure in the history of fashion. (See Watteau, Wikipedia.)

Leo Rauth died of a pistol shot at the age of 29. News of his premature death after a dizzying three-year career sent shock waves through artistic circles. He had chosen useful art and seemed destined for a brilliant career.

Rauth died, but the Pierrot survived. In 1913, Sergei Diaghilev‘s Ballets Russes were in Paris and Pierrot was on stage dancing, not far from Harlequin and Columbina. Moreover, a young Picasso was working for the Ballets Russes. Picasso would also remember the stock characters of the commedia dell’arte. However, he would choose Harlequin as a major subject matter. Could it be the cubes? We will see…

My best regards to everyone. ♥

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[i] “fin de siècle”. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2014. Web. 26 Jun. 2014
<http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/207099/fin-de-siecle>.

Ballet Russes, by August Macke, 1912 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ballet Russes by August Macke, 1912 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ein gern gesehener Gast (A Welcome Guest), 1912

Ein gern gesehener Gast (A Welcome Guest) by Leo Rauth, 1912 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Im Rampenlicht (In the Limelight), by Leo Rauth

Im Rampenlicht (In the Limelight) by Leo Rauth, 1911 (Photo Credit: Wikipedia)

Arnold Schoenberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) composed a Pierrot Lunaire (Op. 11) using his twelve-tone technique.

Valse contente by Oswin Haas

Vow of love, 1911 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Vow of love, 1911 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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