Germaine Chaumel
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Germaine Chaumel (22 or 30 November 1895 in Toulouse[1] – 12 April 1982 in Blagnac) was a French photographer, singer, pianist, hatmaker and illustrator.
Personal life[]
Chaumel was from an artist family; her father loved painting, her mother was a pianist and her uncle, , a photographer. She studied singing and piano at the .[2] She married Pierre Grand in 1919, with whom she had a son, Bernard, in 1922. She divorced him a year later and married Chales Chaumel that same year, with whom she had a daughter, Pâquerette "Paqui", in 1925.[3]
At the beginning of World War II, she put a Jewish family from Antwerp up in her home.[4]
Career[]
She became an operetta singer in 1925, under the name of Anny Morgan, at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. She played Manon in , Marguerite in Faust and also in , La Fille de madame Angot and Lakmé.[5] In 1933, she stopped her singing career as well as equestrianism.[5] Thanks to her husband, at the head of the local electrical company, she managed a record shop in Toulouse.[2]
References[]
- ^ Toulouse en noir et blanc says the 30, Germaine Chaumel, femme photographe the 22
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bordes 2012, p. 9
- ^ Bordes 2012, p. 8
- ^ Destrem & Llabres 1994, p. 13
- ^ Jump up to: a b Destrem & Llabres 1994, p. 10
Works cited[]
- Leroy, Elérika (November 2007). Odyssud-Blagnac (ed.). Exposition Germaine Chaumel, Photographe humaniste (in French).
- Exposition Germaine Chaumel : profession photographe.
- Bordes, François (2012). Éditions Privat (ed.). Germaine Chaumel, femme photographe (in French). ISBN 978-2-7089-8157-7.
- Leroy, Élérika (2006). Mairie de Toulouse (ed.). Toulouse, mémoire de rues (in French).
- Destrem, Louis; Llabres, Claude (1994). Editions Milan (ed.). Toulouse en noir et blanc (Les années de guerre 1939/1944) [Toulouse in Black and White (The War Years 1939/1944)] (in French). ISBN 2-84113-010-X.
- French photographers
- 1895 births
- 1982 deaths
- French women photographers
- People from Toulouse
- 20th-century French singers
- 20th-century photographers
- 20th-century French women singers
- 20th-century women photographers