Jules-Émile Zingg

Jules-Émile Zingg (25 August 1882– 4 May 1942) was a French Modernist painter, known for his rural scenes. Other themes of his work included figures, genre scenes, landscapes and, landscapes with figures.

Biography Jules-Émile Zingg was born on 25 August 1882, in Montbéliard, Doubs, In 1937 he was awarded the Grand Prize at the Exposition Universelle. He designed tapestries for the Aubusson and Gobelin factories. He became vice-president of the society dedicated to the art of fresco painting, and about 1925 decorated with frescoes the columns of the famous Montparnasse brasserie, La Coupole.

His work is to be found in many museum collections including the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, as well as museums in Besançon and other French towns. Retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pont-Aven and in Paris at the Musée Bourdelle (1990). After World War I one of his pupils was .

Twenty works were exhibited at the museum of Cosne-sur-Loire, thanks to a donation from Emile Loiseau in 1970, including his own portrait by Zingg.

Zingg died in Paris on 4 May 1942.

Selected paintings