Jean Garillon Elchinger Saint Cloud Flower Holder Signed

Jean Garillon. Elchinger. Saint Cloud. Flower holder. Signed. Diameter 13 cm. Very good condition. Ceramicist, (C) (★ Soufflenheim 8.4.1898 † Essey-lès-Nancy 12.7.1981). Son of Charles Elchinger, potter, and Marie-Madeleine Kelhoffner. ∞ 27.12.1926 Marie-Louise Garillon, from Ahéville, Vosges. He took his wife's maiden name as a pseudonym and, since 1928, signed all his pieces: Jean Garillon. From 1919 to 1939 he trained as a potter and artistic ceramicist. He was one of the pioneers of the Art Deco style of 1925 in ceramics and greatly influenced the production and decoration of potters from Soufflenheim and Betschdorf. He also collaborated on modelling with the sculptor Marzolff ©. In 1943, he settled in Saint-Cloud where from 1954 he joined the Association of Clodoaldian Artists. In Alsace, he was a member of AIDA. His participation in exhibitions was particularly noted in Paris in 1925 at the Chamber of Trades and in 1938 in Chicago, under the patronage of the National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions of Paris, which was still at the Trocadéro (Palais de Chaillot) at the time. His works can be seen in the latter museum, at the National Museum of Ceramics in Sèvres, in several Canadian museums, and at the museums in Strasbourg.