Jean Morax Explained

Birth Date:	16 September 1869
Birth Place:	Morges, Switzerland
Death Place:	Morges
Occupation:	Painter Theater decorator Draftsman

Jean Morax (16 September 1869 – 11 May 1939) was a painter, theater decorator and draftsman from the Canton of Vaud.

Biography

A pupil of Édouard Castres in Geneva then of Benjamin Constant, of Luc-Olivier Merson and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris, Jean Morax shared his life between Paris, Florence and Switzerland. He exhibited his paintings influenced by the Nabis in Geneva, notably at the National Exhibition (1896), in Paris (bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900)) and in Munich (1905).

With his brother René, he created the Théâtre du Jorat in Mézières in 1903; There, he designed costumes, sets and posters, especially for Henriette (1908), Tell (1914), Le Roi David (1921), and La belle de Moudon.^[1] (1931).

He created the costumes of the 1905 Fête des vignerons in Vevey.

Sources

• Jean Morax (1869-1939) on Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne
  • Notabilités vaudoises 1933, p. 67
• Marcus Osterwalder Dictionnaire des illustrateurs.^[2]
• Patrie suisse, 1917, No 610 p. 26-27
• Patrie suisse, 1903, No 252, p. 119-121
• photo Thibault, Morges Patrie suisse, (E. de B.) 1902, No 216, p. 5-8
• DBAS, 742
• Yvan Schwab, René Morax, un théâtre pour le peuple, 2003
• DTS, 1272-1273

External links

• Photo - Jean Morax on notrehistoire.ch
• Historique, Le Théâtre du Jorat
• Short biography
• Voilier sur le Léman (painting)
• Jean Morax, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Swiss Theater Poster on 1stdibs

Notes and References

1. http://data.bnf.fr/14748653/arthur_honegger_la_belle_de_moudon__h_78/ La Belle de Moudon
2. https://www.qwant.com/?q=Marcus%20Osterwalder%20Dictionnaire%20des%20illustrateurs&t=all Marcus Osterwalder Dictionnaire des illustrateurs