Maurice Denis, en collaboration avec Marcel Poncet, au cœur du vitrail religieux moderne

Résumé 0

Maurice Denis (1870-1943) was an artist of multiple talents; painter and theoretician, decorator, illustrator, but also stained glass painter. In nearly fifty years of creation, he realized more than seventy stained glass windows, both civil and religious, making the link between Art Nouveau at the beginning of his career and the “painters’ stained glass” that rose up in the 1940s. The present study, essentially based on first hand sources, intends to shed light on his collaboration with the young Swiss stained glass painter, Marcel Poncet (1894-1953) that fundamentally transformed his conception of stained glass windows, by allowing him to intimately penetrate the mysteries of this technique. The stained glass windows of the three buildings where they worked in association are analyzed and placed in perspective : the churches in Geneva, Notre Dame (1917) and Saint Paul (1918-1923), and the chapel of Saint Louis du Prieuré in Saint Germain en Laye (1918-1922).