The First World War through the eyes of artists who lived through it

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Thursday November 7, 2024at 6 p.m., the Loudéac media library (Côtes-d’Armor) inaugurates the exhibition “Representing the war: painters, designers and illustrators during the World War I ».

“It’s another way to discover what these men experienced up close,” summarizes the assistant in charge of culture Gwenaëlle Kervella.

110th anniversary

The works presented in the exhibition room come from four collections private people gathered on the occasion of the 110^e anniversary of the terrible human catastrophe of the beginning of the 20th century^e century.

It consists of several thematic series of sketched andwatercolors made by artists who were at the front between 1914 and 1918.

Around fifteen of them are represented, including some German artists and also three women.

Portraits of the wounded by Jeanne Malivel

This is how we will not fail to find some of these sketches that Jeanne Malivel offered to the wounded soldiers she cared for at the Loudéac temporary hospital.

They belong to her great-nephew, “the son of Dr. Cordier, a well-known figure among Loudéacians,” explains Gwenaëlle Kervella.

Guided tour Saturday November 9, 2024

You will also find drawings and watercolors belonging to the collector Dinannais. Guy Danze and to the local historian specializing in the First World War Ronan Richard.

Both are members of the Bretagne 14-18 association and offer guided tour of the exhibition, Saturday November 9, 2024between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Two upcoming conferences

Ronan Richard will also give a conference on “artists in captivity in France (1914-1918)” Tuesday November 19, 2024 at 6 p.m., still at the media library.

The Loudéacian professor indicates that German prisoner-of-war artists held at Belle-Île-en-Mer or Île Longue were particularly well treated:

“Some painters could even obtain an exemption from the prefecture to leave the camp and go and practice their art.”

A second conference, devoted to memorial stained glass windows“one of the manifestations of religious souvenir of the Great War in Brittany”, will be given by the historian Jean-Yves Coulon the Tuesday November 26, 2024 at 6 p.m.

The exhibition will be visible with free access until November 30, 2024.

You can also discover models made to scale of the whole first assault tanks of History.

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