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. In 1890 he took up residence in Paris, at 66 rue de Lisbonne, but he still returned regularly to stay at the home of his grandfather, the collector Charles Friry (1802–1881) where he painted numerous landscapes of the Vosges region. In the historic 18th-century mansion where he was born, 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, grouping together a hundred of his works, including sixty paintings, ceramics, terracottas and bindings. In February and March 1896 he had a show at Le Barc de Boutteville, an avant-garde gallery in Paris

• Illustration — Platanes au bord de l'eau (Plane Trees at the Water's Edge) (1893) • Illustration — 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 • Illustration — Huy (ca. 1906), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum • Illustration — Printemps (Spring) (ca. 1909), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum • Illustration — Effet de neige (Snow Effect) (1911), oil on canvas, Charles-Friry Museum • Illustration — Apocalypse selon Saint Jean (Apocalypse According to Saint John) (1930), illuminated book, Charles-Friry Museum • Illustration — Maquette de la ferme (Model of the Farm)(ca. 1933), oil on cardboard and wood, Charles de Bruyères Museum • Illustration — 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