Amélie Diéterle Explained

Amélie Diéterle
Birth Date:1871 2, df=y
Birth Place:Strasbourg, Alsace–Lorraine, German Empire
Death Place:Cannes, Vichy France
Nationality:French
Occupation:Actor
Years Active:1892–1922
Signature:Amélie Diéterle (1871-1941) signature (A).jpg

Amélie Diéterle (20 February 1871  - 20 January 1941) was a French actress and opera singer. She was one of the popular actresses of the Belle Époque until the beginning of the Années Folles. Amélie Diéterle inspired the poets Léon Dierx and Stéphane Mallarmé and the painters Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Alfred Philippe Roll.

Biography

Amélie Diéterle was born in Strasbourg on 20 February 1871. She was the daughter of a maidservant from Munich and a young French officer, Captain Louis Laurent who was garrisoned nearby in 1870.[1]

Having won first prize of song and solfège at the Conservatory of Dijon,[2] she went to Paris in 1889 where she was chosen from 40 competitors to enter the Concerts Colonne. She was a pupil of Alice Ducasse who had been a singer of the Opéra-Comique. She was spotted in 1891 by the conductor of the Théâtre des Variétés and presented to the director Eugène Bertrand who hired her. This began a career of nearly 35 years in the troupe of the Variety Theatre. She became a permanent actress who had her own rooms and reserved box.

Her little voice flutée and her nose " trumpet " make her very popular and very appreciated.She became the protégé of art collector Paul Gallimard, who was also the owner of the Variety Theater. She also inspired poets Léon Dierx and Stéphane Mallarmé.[1]

Auguste Renoir made three portraits of her, a lithograph in gray on wove paper in 1899, exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum[3] and a pastel in 1903, exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston.[4]

The two paintings depict Amélie Diéterle wearing a white hat. The third portrait, made around 1910, is a pastel, currently at the in Saint-Quentin.[5]

One of the three works was loaned in 1922 by Gaston Bernheim (1870–1953) to the exhibition A Hundred Years of French Painting (1821–1921) from Ingres to Cubism, organized for the benefit of the Strasbourg Museum (hometown of the actress) at the Parisian headquarters of the Antiquarian Room (reproduced in the article by Léandre Vaillat in L'Illustration n° 4136 of 1er April 1922).

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec makes it appear in one of his most famous paintings dated 1896: Marcelle Lender dancing bolero in Chilperic.[6]

Alfred Philippe Roll made a painting of her in June 1913, showing her half-naked sitting in a garden chair with .[7] This painting is donated by Mrs. Henriette Roll at the Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, at the Petit Palais.

It has achieved great notoriety as is still reflected today the many postcards of the 1900s that represent it.

She lived for a long time in the city of Croissy-sur-Seine.[1]

Compromise in spite of herself in the affair of the traffic of the fake Rodin statues in 1919 and tired by thirty years in the spotlight, she withdraws progressively from the scene between 1920 and 1923.[1]

On 16 June 1930, she married a friend of the family, André Louis Simon (1877–1965), in Vallauris.

Amélie Diéterle took refuge in Vallauris after June 1940 and died in Cannes after a long illness on 20 January 1941,[8] at the age of 69 years.

Distinctions

Amélie Diéterle Appointed Officer of public instruction

Theater

Filmography

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amélie Diéterle (1871–1941): l'ascension d'une étoile. Archives of Croissy-sur-Seine. 9 June 2018. 27 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200927005935/http://archives.croissy.com/2013/07/amelie-dieterle-1871-1941-lascension.html.
  2. Book: fr. Jules. Delini. Our headings: 300 anecdotal biographies of dramatic and lyric artists. Éditions Joë Bridge. Paris. 1 July 1922. 94 (total pages : 312). Miss Dieterle (Amélie Laurent, so-called). https://archive.org/stream/nosvedettes300bi00deli#page/94/mode/2up. .
  3. Web site: Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Mademoiselle Amélie Laurent Diéterle. Art Institute of Chicago.
  4. Web site: Miss Dieterle (The Wonderful). Museum of Fine Arts of Boston.
  5. Web site: Portrait of Mademoiselle Diéterle, Variety Theater. Art Meeting of the National Museums and the Grand Palais.
  6. Web site: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Marcelle Lender dancing bolero in Chilperic, 1896. National Gallery of Art.
  7. Web site: Alfred Roll, In June, Amélie Diéterle. Paris Museums Collections.
  8. Archives of Cannes City Hall: civil status of Cannes – death certificate n° 72. Register of deaths for the year 1941. Cannes Town Hall, Civil status, n°1 Bernard Cornut-Gentille place, CS 30140, 06414 Cannes Cedex.
  9. Jacasse is the character played by Sarah Bernhardt in the play Les bouffons of Miguel Zamacoïs at Sarah-Bernhardt Theater, the same year. Source : newspaper Le Figaro of 31 May 1907, n° 151, page 6, under the heading Courrier des theaters .
  10. This play is performed as part of the Charity Gala of the Paris theaters, for the benefit of the victims of the earthquake of Sicily and the Calabria at the end of the year 1908. See : 1908 Messina earthquake.
  11. After having interpreted the role of Suzette Bourdier in 1908, Amélie Diéterle has the character Youyou in 1921. Read the newspaper, fr. Comœdia (newspaper). The Theaters, Varieties. Comœdia. Paris. 10 March 1921. 4. 3006. .
  12. Photographic and biographical album on glories of the theater from 1850 to the 1930s, in the heyday of: Rachel Felix, Jean Coquelin, Paul Mounet, Sarah Bernhardt, Réjane, Amélie Diéterle, Julia Bartet, Jeanne Granier, Eleonora Duse, Lucien Guitry, ...
  13. Commentary of the authors: « In this book of "Loves of Don Juan", we appealed for the photographic illustration, to Mrs Lise Fleuron, exquisite and charming artist of which all Paris at the moment, and at Miss Diéterle, whose stique and talent are applauded each evening at the Variety Theater. Both of them wanted to embody the two main characters of the novel: the first for Dona Elvire , the second for Dona Anna ».

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