"rue à Montmartre" Edgar Stoëbel (1909 - 2001)

Oil on paper mounted on canvas.
Signed lower left.
Dimensions of the work: 59 cm x 44 cm
Frame size: 74 cm x 59 cm
Good condition.
Between 1946 and 1950, Edgard Stoëbel notably produced numerous figurative views of Parisian places: Montmartre, Place Clichy or Pigalle.
Edgar Stoëbel was very young in music and graphic arts, these art forms having been closely linked throughout his life.
In Oran, he created a small conservatory with seventeen musicians, and directed an orchestra.
In 1931, he moved to Paris to work on music. He studied with Professor Léon Eugène Moreau (Grand Prix de Rome), who taught him harmony, counterpoint, fugue and piano until 1939 and the declaration of the Second World War. Mobilized, he joined his infantry corps.
In 1940, faced with the rise of Nazism, he returned to Algeria where he painted and sketched, then he conducted an orchestra until 1942. There are figurative works from this period in collections in Algeria.
After the German surrender of May 8, 1945, he was repatriated to Paris. He then created the Éditions Stoëbel, wrote music and songs that he produced in 78 tours until the arrival of the LP.
From 1945-1946, he gradually abandoned music to devote himself only to painting and drawing.
Between 1946 and 1950, he notably produced many figurative views of Parisian places: Montmartre, Place Clichy or Pigalle.
From 1950, he frequented the artists' Montparnasse and befriended the sculptor Anton Prinner, with Pierre Loeb and Picasso. He also made friends with artists from the rue de la Grange-Batelière: Henri Goetz, Mondzain, Michonze, Meyer Lazar.
In the 1970s, he met an Irishwoman in Montparnasse who introduced him to the Pub Olympia. In the evening, he sings his songs there: Le Beau Paulo, La Fille du marinero, La Joconde à Paulo, which are very successful. During these years, he draws and paints in the afternoon.
Jacques Martin will make a film on the life of Stoëbel, painter and singer of Pub Olympia.
In 1960, he invented his own writing which he called “Figura-synthesis”. The "Figura-synthesis" is the image that we have of an object and not of the object in its form as it appears to us: it is subjective and only represents an unreal form on all. the plans. The relationship of the forms to each other constitutes the “Figura-synthesis”.
This makes Stoëbel a painter with recognizable writing. Emmanuel David, art dealer and collector, speaks of it in these terms: “In front of an artist's canvas, one is struck by the personality in the conception and execution of the work. The sincerity of the emotion, the height of the tone and the color, the sensitivity and the simplicity of the synthetic composition, create a balance of volumes, a poetry, where the dream and the musicality give to this work all its originality and its quality ”.
Stoëbel's painting of the 1960s is situated in the movement of post-war concrete abstraction, or concrete art also called Constructive Art.
For a long time confined by art critics to what happened in painting in Paris and especially in New York, concrete abstraction was in fact a movement of global scale which developed from South America to Northern Europe and could not be reduced to the only French easel painting by Bazaine, Manessier, Hartung, Estève or Gischia.
This movement, as Véronique Wiesinger mentions in her introduction to Abstractions in France and Italy 1945-1975 around Jean Leppien, catalog of the exhibition at the Strasbourg Museum from November 1999 to February 2000, "far from being the echo factitious from the pre-war School of Paris, or a response to American abstract expressionism, […] was indeed, until the mid-1970s, the last fireworks of the modern movement, igniting all the fires that are still burning today ”.
Museums:
• Montparnasse Museum, Paris, France
• Beit Uri and Rami Nechustan Museum, Israel
• Dimona Museum, Israel
• Museum of Eilat, Israel
Bibliography:
• Edgar Stoebel, monograph by Lydia Harambourg published by the Cercle d'art, 2007
• Bénézit, Dictionary of painters sculptors and designers
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