Louis Garin The Goemoniers Brittany

Louis Garin born June 23, 1888 in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) and died October 13, 1959 in Val-d'Izé (Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French painter and illustrator. Biography[edit | modify the code] Louis Garin was born into a modest family whose father was a railwayman. He worked with his father at the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest until 1935. He enrolled in evening classes at the regional school of fine arts in Rennes Louis Garin married and became a father1. He paints in his spare time and during his holidays. Illustrator and painter of landscapes and lyrical subjects, he is renowned for painting only the Breton region1. In 1922, he exhibited at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts Between 1928 and 1938, he worked for the Manufacture de la Grande Maison de la Hubaudière, known as "HB", in Quimper, in particular in the company of the sculptor René Quillivic and the painters Alphonse Chanteau (1874-1958) and Georges Brisson (1902-1980), Georges Renaud (1901-1994), Paul Fouillen (1899-1958), and the Toulousian René Beauclair (1877-1960), this during the full productivity of the “Odetta” brand (Les Ateliers de l'Odet)1. In 1935, he participated in the decoration of the tourism class games room of the Normandy liner. At the same time, he quit his job as a railway worker to become a full-time painter after receiving the order for the decoration of the Sainte -Thérèse de Rennes He designed the decor for the Breton pavilion for the 1937 Universal Exhibition in Paris During the Second World War, he found refuge in Landavran, where he decorated the walls of the church He also painted numerous restaurant decors, including Le Menach au Bono, the Du Guesclin hotel in Rennes, Manche-Océan in Vannes, the Bellevue hotel in Trébeurden as well as in some churches such as Saint-Joseph in La Trinité-sur-Mer, or the Saint-Lézin church at La Chapelle-Janson in 1959, a few months before his death He also worked for the Sarreguemines earthenware factory, for which he produced table services with Breton decorations He died in Val d'Izé on October 13, 1959