Jules Emile Zingg (1882-1942) Snow Landscape

A luminous snowscape rendered with thick, creamy brushstrokes by the Franche-Comté post-Impressionist painter Jules Emile Zingg.

Oil on panel.
Signed lower left.
Dimensions: 33 x 44 cm. Framed: 51 x 62 cm.
Inscription on the back: Zingg and address of his studio: Villa Brune, Paris 14th arrondissement.

Jules Emile Zingg, a painter appreciated by the modernists of his time

Zingg was enamored with freedom and decided, in 1913, to leave the capital and the teaching of masters he considered too classical and boring. His new role models were Bonnard, Seurat, and Cézanne.
He discovered Brittany and the Pink Granite Coast by chance. There he met Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier. This moment was decisive for his career, and his painting, also encouraged by the practice of wood engraving, became simpler and profoundly more synthetic.

The snowy landscape, one of his favorite subjects.

It is often under a thick blanket of snow that the painter likes to depict the landscapes of his beloved Franche-Comté region, but also those of the Vosges, the Jura, and the Auvergne. In our painting, he paints the snow with thick layers that obscure the drawing. One can almost feel the texture of the snow itself. The snow is tinged with blue and pink, reflections of the light from the sky.

Bibliography

Jules-Émile Zingg, born in Montbéliard and died in Paris, was a French painter, decorator, and engraver. The son of a family of watchmakers in Franche-Comté, he abandoned a promising career in his father's workshop to become a painter.

Zingg entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Besançon in the studio of Félix Giacomotti and remained there for a year.

On November 8, 1902, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying in the studio of Fernand Cormon.
He specialized in landscape painting. He was awarded second prize in the 1911 Prix de Rome and won a national prize.

In early 1917, he volunteered with Vuillard, serving as an army painter on the Eastern Front. Paradoxically, it was there, sharing the dangerous life of the combatants, that his painting found renewed vigor.

In 1918, Jules-Émile Zingg exhibited at the Galerie Druet in Paris. He met Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier in Perros-Guirec. He was captivated by the decorative aspect of the Nabis' painting. Following this encounter, his style developed with an economy of means.

From his exhibition at the Galerie Druet onward, Jules-Émile Zingg achieved a certain degree of renown. He then exhibited his paintings in major Parisian galleries as well as abroad. In 1926, the "Société Belfortaine des Beaux-Arts" (Belfort Fine Arts Society) was founded, which organized important exhibitions annually at the Belfort museums until the Second World War. Jules-Émile Zingg participated alongside Georges Fréset, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Jean-Eugène Bersier, Raymond Legueult, Anders Osterlind, Henry de Waroquier, and René-Xavier Prinet.

Museums:

• Cosne-sur-Loire: approximately twenty works are held at the museum, following a bequest from Émile Loiseau in 1970, including his portrait by Jules-Émile Zingg.

• Gray (Haute-Saône): Baron-Martin Museum.

• Meudon: Museum of Art and History.

• Montbéliard, Museum of Art and History

Source

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules-Émile_Zingg https://bretagne-expertises.com/julesemile-zingg