1. Biography

2. Legacy

3. References

Madeleine Zillhardt, born June 10, 1863 in Saint-Quentin, France, and died April 16, 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is a French artist, writer, decorator and painter. Her life and her career are linked to another artist, the German-Swiss painter Louise Catherine Breslau, of whom she was the companion, the muse and the inspirer. They lived together for more than forty years, a life turned towards arts.

She is the sister of painter Jenny Zillhardt.

Biography

Madeleine Zillhardt studied at the Académie Julian, art school in Paris hence the only institution of art education open to women in Paris. His sister Jenny Zillhardt also studied there. She met there young artists like her: Anna Klumpke, Hermine David, Agnes Goodsir, Sarah Purser, Marie Bashkirtseff, and especially the "rival" of this one, Louise Catherine Breslau.

In 1884. Zillhardt asked Breslau to make her portrait. They will not leave each other and move permanently together in 1886. In 1887, Breslau performs Contre Jour, one of his masterpieces, representing the couple she forms with Zillhardt in their intimacy, bought by the Swiss government in 1896, today. held by Museum of Fine Arts Bern.

Madeleine Zillhardt became one of the most original decorators of her time and Louise Breslau had a huge success in the world of painting. The two women become an essential couple in the Parisian art scene and receive their artist friends: Henri Fantin-Latour, Auguste Rodin, and Edgar Degas, of whom Zillhardt wrote a biography.^[1].

After the war, the health of Breslau declines until his death on May 12, 1927 in Paris. Zillhardt, bruised, spent the rest of his life perpetuating

the work of his companion, donating to various museums. Zillhardt thus allowed the work of his companion not to be too dispersed and to appear today in the international collections.

In 1928, Zillhardt bought the concrete barge 'Liège' in Paris in order to make it available to the Salvation Army. With the support of Winnaretta Singer, princesse de Polignac and heiress of the company of seming machines Singer, the barge is rehabilitated by Le Corbusier in 1929.

She took the name Louise-Catherine in tribute to Breslau.

According to the will of Madeleine Zillhardt, the boat becomes a refuge for the homeless in winter and a summer camp for children, moored in Paris on the banks of the Seine, at the Pont des Arts and at the Pont d'Austerlitz. In 2006, the boat was taken over the Fondation Le Corbusier. In 2018, it accidentally sank on February 10, during the flood of the Seine in Paris. The Louise-Catherine barge is still located at the Port of Austerlitz, in the 13th arrondissement, hoping for a renovation project^[3].

Legacy

A street in Paris is named 'place Louise Catherine Breslau & Madeleine Zillhardt^[4]', in the 6th arrondissement (Saint-Germain-des-Prés)^[5]

References

• Shevchenko, Russia
• Shevchenko State Art School
• Shevchenko State Opera and Ballet Theatre
• Shevchenko State Prize
• Shevchenko Transnistria State University
• Shevchuk
• She-Venom (Ann Weying)
• She-Venom (Patricia Robertson)
• Shevernadze
• Sheversheieva Gevergeyeva
• Shevgaon taluka
• Shevgaon tehsil
• Shevin Smith
• Sheviock
• Shevkefza
• Shevlin Stakes
• Shevlin Township, Minnesota
• Shevon Stoddart
• Shevri
• Shevá
• Shevá na‘
• Shew
• Shewa, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• She Walks Like A Bearded Rainbow
• Shewan