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Items loaned from the Pasteur Museum for special events being held around Louis Pasteur's birthplace

  • As part of a regional tribute to painter Auguste Pointelin, the towns of Dole and Arbois are each organizing an exhibition.

Louis Pasteur was a great admirer of Auguste Pointelin: "… the fine arts are very fortunate at the moment to have a highly talented artist, Auguste Pointelin […] For the past few years, Pointelin has been one of our leading landscape artists…" (Note from Louis Pasteur to JB Dumas on 29.5.1882)

Known as the "Painter of the Jura Mountains", Auguste Pointelin's works reflected the supreme power of nature. He simplified his landscapes to an increasing extent until he reached a form of abstraction. Some of these Jura landscapes hang in Louis Pasteur's apartment. Five works by Auguste Pointelin have been loaned by the Pasteur Museum for these two exhibitions.

These are as follows:
• The exhibition in Dole, entitled La clarté intime de la terre. Auguste Pointelin ("The intimate clarity of earth. August Pointelin"), will be held from June 27 to November 11, 2018, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dole, a public museum that has been awarded the prestigious title "Musée de France".

• The exhibition in Arbois, entitled Auguste Pointelin. Pastels., will be held from July 1 to September 23, 2018, at the Musée d'Art, Hôtel Sarret de Grozon, in Arbois.

 

 

  • In partnership with the French National Library (BnF), the French Academy of Sciences and the Institut Pasteur, and echoing the exhibition at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris, the Musée de la Vigne et du Vin du Jura in Arbois is hosting an exhibition based on the archives of Louis Pasteur.

 

This exhibition was awarded the title "Exhibition of National Interest" in 2018 by the French Ministry of Culture. Entitled Pasteur à l'œuvre. Ses manuscrits inédits ("Pasteur at work. His previously unpublished manuscripts"), it will run from June 15 to October 15, 2018, at the Musée de la Vigne et du Vin du Jura, Château-Pécauld, in Arbois.

 

Several items from the collections of the Pasteur Museum will be exhibited to create a "dialog" with Pasteur's previously unpublished manuscripts.

 

For further information about these exhibitions, please contact: musee@pasteur.fr

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