Mariette Teisserenc

Mariette Teisserenc
Mariette Teisserenc in 1987
Born
Mariette Dessèvre

(1940-03-05)5 March 1940
Grand-Couronne (Seine-Maritime), France
OccupationPainter
Spouse
Jacques Teisserenc
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(m. 1963)​

Mariette Teisserenc, born in Grand-Couronne (Seine-Maritime, France), on March 3, 1940, is a French visual artist, painter and engraver.[1][2][3] She is also known as "Teisse" or "Teisse-Renc".

Trained as a Graphic designer at Düsseldorf's School of Decorative Arts (1967–1972),[1][4] she gave up a career in the advertising industry in 1978 to dedicate herself to her artistic practice.

As an abstract painter and advocate for recognition of women artists in France and abroad,[5][6][7] she was the President of the French women artists' group "Art et Regard des Femmes [fr]".[8][9]

Her work is characterized by clean shapes, strong lines and the invariable use of the colour black. It expresses tensions between forms and the search for equilibrium.[10]

In 1969, Teisserenc was awarded a Second Prize for Graphic-Design from the company Henkel & Cie GmbH (Düsseldorf, West-Germany). In 1971, she received first prize from the Nordwestdeutsche Austellungsgesellschaft mbH (NOWEA, Messe Düsseldorf). In 1983, she received a silver medal from the Bilan de l'Art Contemporain Foundation (Melun-Almont, France).[1]

In 1996, the Association française d’action artistique [fr] (part of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry) and the Ministry for Indigenous Affairs of Quebec awarded her a grant to travel to the Nunavik region and study the use of the ulu, a knife specific to Inuit women. She exhibited the results of her work in 1998 at Riverin-Arlogos Gallery, Eastman, Canada.[11]

Mariette Teisserenc was president of the french feminist artists collective Art et regard des femmes [fr].[3]

In 2012, Teisserenc designed the stained glass windows of Saint-Peter and Saint-Paul Church in Brûlon-sur-Sarthe, France.[12]

  1. ^ a b c Klaus-Dieter Lehmann (November 1983). Bildende Künstler und Autoren Düsseldorf (in German). Düsseldorf: Literaturdüro Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. p. n.p. (1p.).
  2. ^ "Teisse-Renc, Mariette". De Gruyter : Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL). 2021. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  3. ^ a b ArtFacts. "Mariette Teisserenc | Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  4. ^ Hans Joachim Orth (1980). 1980 Düsseldorf Creativ (in German). Düsseldorf: Verlag Müller «Schwann» GmbH. p. 274. ISBN 978-3-88528-300-3.
  5. ^ Owens, Georgette L. (1997). International Women Artists – Entering The Second Millenium. Greenbrae (CA): Alliance of Women Artists. pp. 148–9. ISBN 0-9658412-0-0.
  6. ^ Dumont, Fabienne (2014). Des sorcières comme les autres : Artistes et féministes dans la France des années 1970 - Collection Archives du féminisme (in French). Presses universitaires de Rennes. ISBN 978-2-7535-3250-2.
  7. ^ Balaram, Rakhee (2022-03-08). Women's groups and collective art practices in France in the 1970's. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-2517-0. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  8. ^ Quinby, Diana (2004-12-01). "De l'Art et du Féminisme en France dans les années 1970". Archives du Féminisme. n°8 (1): n.d. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  9. ^ Dumont, Fabienne (2019). "À l'assaut ! Explosion d'assaut ! Explosion d'expositions de femmes artistes en France pendant le mouvement féministe". Artl@s Bulletin (Purdue Univ.). 8 (1): n.d.
  10. ^ n.a. (1983). Three Contemporary Artists: Sheila Reid, Mariette Teisserenc, Leny Aardse-Scholten. Albany, New York: Mario Negri Institute Foundation. p. 120.
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  12. ^ n.a. (2019). "Brûlon – 3. L'église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul" (PDF). Petites Cités de Caractère de la Sarthe: 9.