Essay content
part 1 – Introduction
part 2 – Rene Lalique young years
part 3 – First company and first success
part 4 - Lalique production in architecture and wars influents
part 5 – Conclusions
part 2 – Rene Lalique young years
part 3 – First company and first success
part 4 - Lalique production in architecture and wars influents
part 5 – Conclusions
Rene Lalique and his Art Nouveau road
Introduction
In this essay I would like to introduce for you one great artist from France of the Art Nouveau period. May be it will be more correctly if I write artist of the Art Nouveau and Deco periods,
because this man made his works between this two periods. Name of this man is Rene Lalique, he was a great jeweler, glassmaker and designer. He designed thinks like perfume bottles, clocks, jewelry and one of the most famous part of his work it is car mascots. He made mascots for cars like Bentley and Bugatti. The company what he found still work for our days director of this firm his grand-daughter.
Rene Jules Lalique (1860 – 1945) was born on April 6, 1860 in Ay, France. When he was 2 years his family moved to a suburb of Paris and there Lalique went to the Lycee Turgot school. Design art interested Rene from the young years, he began his study early it was drawing and his teacher was Jean-Marie Lequie. When he was 12 he won his first design price at the Lycee Turgot. When Rene was 16 he began his studying in Ecole des Arts Decoratifs and he began work with Louis Aucoc – one of the greatest jewelers of Paris. Two years later, when Rene was almost 18, he began studied drawing in Sydenham College in London. This college important part of his life, because here he found his own jeweler naturalist style. His style include natural motifs, Japanese natural motifs and some Greek themes. After college Rene returned to France. In Paris he started work as jeweler designer for M. Vuilleret and as freelance jeweler designer for a lot of firms. In Paris Rene began studied sculpture at the Ecole Bernard Palissy.After five years of experience with jeweler work Rene decided open his own jeweler shop.This shop was opened in fashion part of Paris.
This was the year when Rene married in first, his first wife was Marie-Louis Lambert. His second wife was daughter of the sculpture Auguste Ledru, Augustine-Alice Ledru, with this wife he had two children Suzanne and Marc. In 1890 Rene open new jewelry shop. In 1893 name Rene Lalique was already famous in all world and in this year he won Centrale des arts Decoratifs goldsmiths competition, works-winner was his Chardon glasses, Pampas and Satyrs vase. After several years Lalique received prize at the Salon in Paris, for his ivory and horn hair combs. Several years after, in 1900 he International Exhibition in Brussels was awarded the Officer of the Legion of Honor. In Paris, from 1908 Lalique started made fashion thinks like scarves, handbags, belts and perfume bottles for François Coty. Lalique created more than 250 
different perfume bottles for Worth, Houbigant and many other French perfumers. From 1912 his workshop was more focused on artistic glass production. It was products like statues, fountains, car mascots and many others. His first from Cars Mascots was Five Horses for 5CV version of Citroen.
Lalique was not only grate decorative designer but architectural designer too. The more famous his architectural work was glass fountain Champs-Elysées Pigeons. He designed interior of few liners, it was: The Paris, The Ile de France and The Normandie. By him was 
designed interior of dining cars for Orient Express Railroad trains, windows of Coty Building at 712, 5th Avenue in New York City, doors of Prince Asaka Yasuhiko’s Palace in Tokyo today it’s Tokyo Teien Metropolitan Art Museum, windows for Saint Nicaise Church in Reims, components for the Oviatt Building in Los Angeles, decorations in the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, decoration of St. Metthew's church today it's "The Glass Church" and many others.When World War I was began Lalique workshop was rebuild for production medicines and hospitals glass. In 1921, Lalique opened his new factory – Wingen-sur-Moder in the east of France. This factory included over 600 workers.
After a long time of success, Lalique factory stop production, reason was World War II. In 1939 his factory was occupied by German force. Rene Lalique died on May 5, 1945 at the age of 85.He is buried in ae grav in Paris at the Le Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Rene Lalique was a great Art Nouveau artist, when he was 40, he was the most celebrated jeweler in the world creations are highly collected by collectors, the most of all, collected parfume botls. Rene Lalique grate glass works we can see in museums all over the world.
Conclusions
For writing this essay I found a lot of information and tried to put more important periods of Lalique life together, and of course I learn some information about Art Nouveau period and about jewelry. Few thinks I can clearly say about Rene, he was talented, he find his own style, he “mixed” both and made good production. Lalique proof, a real talented man can made good production in different brunches of art. A hard parts of his life was 2 wars. When first was began he found way, how to saved his company and began made production for medicine. Unfortunately his company didn’t was such lucky in second war. Rene made big changes in art world and if someday I will visit Paris, I will put a flower at the grave of this great man in Le Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
For writing this essay I found a lot of information and tried to put more important periods of Lalique life together, and of course I learn some information about Art Nouveau period and about jewelry. Few thinks I can clearly say about Rene, he was talented, he find his own style, he “mixed” both and made good production. Lalique proof, a real talented man can made good production in different brunches of art. A hard parts of his life was 2 wars. When first was began he found way, how to saved his company and began made production for medicine. Unfortunately his company didn’t was such lucky in second war. Rene made big changes in art world and if someday I will visit Paris, I will put a flower at the grave of this great man in Le Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
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