Pierre Waidmann

Pierre Waidmann, born into a wealthy family and sensitive to the arts, moved from his native Lorraine to Paris in the late 1870s to study with Ferdinand Humbert and François-Louis Français. Ten years later he was also a pupil of Alfred Roller and Henri Gervex.^[1] In 1890 he took up residence in Paris, at 66 rue de Lisbonne [fr], but he still returned regularly to stay at the home of his grandfather, the collector Charles Friry [fr] (1802–1881)^[2] where he painted numerous landscapes of the Vosges region.

In the historic 18th-century mansion where he was born,^[3] Waidmann created the interior decorations (especially marquetry and overdoors) in many rooms. In about 1884, he even set up his atelier there. He died in 1937 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, at the age of 77.

In 2011, the two museums of Remiremont, the Charles de Bruyères Museum and the Charles-Friry Museum, dedicated a retrospective to him,^[4] grouping together a hundred of his works, including sixty paintings, ceramics, terracottas and bindings.^[5]

In February and March 1896 he had a show at Le Barc de Boutteville, an avant-garde gallery in Paris^[6]

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  Platanes au bord de l'eau (Plane Trees at the Water's Edge) (1893)
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  Au Bord de l'eau: au pays des Vosges (At the Water's Edge: In the Country of the Vosges) (1892), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum
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  Huy (ca. 1906), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum
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  Printemps (Spring) (ca. 1909), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum
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  Effet de neige (Snow Effect) (1911), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum
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  Apocalypse selon Saint Jean (Apocalypse According to Saint John) (1930), illuminated book, Charles-Friry Museum
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  Maquette de la ferme (Model of the Farm)(ca. 1933), oil on cardboard and wood, Charles de Bruyères Museum
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  Batteur de faux (Scythe Beater) (before 1936), clay pottery, Charles-Friry Museum

• Dans le jardin, 1886
• Au bord de la Moselle, environs de Remiremont, 1887
• Un pré dans les Vosges
• La Moselle, 1888
• Première neige dans les Vosges
• La Vallée de Saint-Amé, 1889
• Ruisseau dans les Vosges, 1890
• Soleil de Mars
• Eau courante dans les Vosges
• Mortagne dans les Vosges
• La Moselle, 1894
• Le Trou de Roisgneux, 1896