Tristan Klingsor
Tristan Klingsor, birth name (Arthur Justin) Léon Leclère (born Lachapelle-aux-Pots, Oise department, 8 August 1874; died Nogent-sur-Marne, 3 August 1966), was a French poet, musician, painter and art critic, best known for his artistic association with the composer Maurice Ravel.
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Klingsor was also a painter (exhibiting from 1905 at the Salon d'Automne and being awarded the Prix Puvis de Chavannes in 1952). His visual art was reviewed twice by Guillaume Apollinaire: In 1906, he called Klingsor's attempts "Merde!" but in 1908, he was kinder, stating: "Klingsor animates his painting with the same sentimental delicacy that gives his poetry its somewhat contrived, dated charm. For my part, I prefer the poet to the painter.” He was also the author of several studies on art, and a composer in his own right, with several collections of melodies, four-part songs, and piano music.
List of writings
- Filles-Fleurs, poems, Mercure de France, 1895
- Squelettes fleuris, poems, Mercure de France, 1897
- L’Escarpolette, poems, Mercure de France, 1899
- La Jalousie du Vizir, story, Mercure de France, 1899
- Le Livre d'Esquisses, poems, Mercure de France, 1900
- Schéhérazade, poems, Mercure de France, 1903
- Petits métiers des rues de Paris, prose, 1904
- La Duègne apprivoisée, comedy, 1907
- Le Valet de Cœur, poems, Mercure de France, 1908
- Les caprices de Goya, critical essay, 1909
- Les Femmes de théâtre au XVIIIe siècle, 1911
- Poèmes de Bohème, poems, Mercure de France, 1913
- Hubert Robert et les paysagistes français du XVIIIe siècle, 1913
- Les derniers-états des lettres et des arts : la peinture, 1913
- Chroniques du Chaperon et de la Braguette, poems, 1913
- La Peinture (L’art français depuis vingt ans), Rieder, Paris, 1921
- Humoresques, poems, 1921
- L'Escarbille d'or, poems, Chiberre, Paris, 1922
- La Peinture (L’art français depuis vingt-cinq ans), Rieder, Paris, 1922
- Cézanne, Rieder, Paris, 1923
- Chardin, collection Maîtres Anciens et Modernes, Nilsson, Paris, 1924
- Essai sur le chapeau, Les Cahiers de Paris, 1926
- Léonard de Vinci (Maîtres de l'art ancien), Rieder, Paris, 1930
- Poèmes du Brugnon, 1933
- Mesures pour rien, in Poésie 42, 1942
- Cinquante Sonnets du Dormeur éveillé, 1949
- Florilège poétique, poems selected by Georges Bouquet and Pierre Menanteau, L’Amitié par le livre, Blainville-sur-Mer, 1955
- Album, 1955
- Claude Lepape, 1958
- Le Tambour voilé, Mercure de France, 1960
- Second florilège, with illustrations by the poet, 1964
- Maisons Aloysius, 1964
- L’Art de peindre, collection Initiations, Braun, Paris
- Poèmes de la princesse Chou, 1974
References
- ^ Ashley, Tim (20 August 2005). "Eastern promise". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
- ^ Maurice Ravel par quelques-uns de ses familiers. Paris: Colette. 1939. pp. 125–39.
Further reading
- Pronger, Lester J. (1965). La Poésie de Tristan Klingsor (1890-1960). Paris: Lettres Modernes (Minard).
External links
- Works by Tristan Klingsor at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Tristan Klingsor at Internet Archive
- Works by or about Léon Leclère at Internet Archive
- Tristan Klingsor Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library[, Yale University.
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