Emile Guillaume La Taverne - Brittany

Émile Guillaume, born June 19, 1900 in Paris and died July 14, 1975 in Saint-Nazaire, is a French regionalist painter, particularly inspired by Brittany. Émile Guillaume's family is originally from Brittany. Two of his ancestors were mayors of Questembert. He is a student at the Paris School of Fine Arts. In 1924, he contributed to the set design for the film The Miracle of the Wolves. In 1928, he moved to La Baule. There, he painted frescoes in the Plage et golf hotel and in several seaside villas in the 1930s. In 1944, during the Second World War, he found himself in the pocket of Saint-Nazaire. The city's chamber of commerce commissioned designs from him for a postal stamp, the only one bearing the words "Atlantic front." After the war, he painted new frescoes, notably that of the curtain of the Trianon cinema in Saint-Nazaire, and for Masonic lodges. He also designed the architecture of two villas in La Baule: La Comoë (around 1960 and Hon Daou (the latter is his own home). Around 1932, he decorated the interior of the Messidor villa, built by Adrien Grave. This villa is classified exceptional heritage of La Baule He draws up a map of Brittany decorated with drawings of traditional costumes and remarkable places, and produces a series of postcards depicting Breton women and men.