A luminous snowscape with the thick and creamy touch of the post-impressionist painter from Franche-Comté, Jules Emile Zingg.
Oil on panel

Signed lower left

Dimensions: 33 x 44 cm

With frame: 51 x 62 cm

Inscription on the back: Zingg and address of his workshop: Villa Brune Paris 14th
Jules Emile Zingg, a painter appreciated by the modernists of his time
Zingg was enamored with freedom and decided, in 1913, to leave the capital and the teaching of masters he considered too classical and boring. His new models were Bonnard, Seurat, and Cézanne.

He discovered Brittany and the Pink Granite Coast by chance. There he met Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier. The moment was decisive for his career and his painting, also encouraged by the practice of wood engraving, became simpler and profoundly synthesized.
The snowy landscape, one of his favorite subjects
It is often under a thick blanket of snow that the painter likes to represent the landscapes of his beloved region, Franche-Comté, but also those of the Vosges, the Jura or Auvergne.

In our painting, he paints the snow with thick layers that obscure the drawing. One can penetrate the very texture of the material. The snow takes on shades of blue and pink, reflecting the light from the sky.
Bibliography
Jules-Émile Zingg, born in Montbéliard and died in Paris, was a French painter, decorator and engraver. Son of a family of watchmakers in Franche-Comté, he abandoned a promising career in his father's workshop to become a painter.
Zingg entered the Besançon School of Fine Arts in the workshop of Félix Giacomotti and stayed there for a year.
On November 8, 1902, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Fernand Cormon. He specialized in landscape painting. He was awarded the title of second prize winner of the Prix de Rome in 1911 and won a national prize.
In early 1917, he volunteered with Vuillard, serving as an army painter on the Eastern Front. Paradoxically, it was there, sharing the dangerous life of the combatants, that his painting found renewed vigor.
In 1918, Jules-Émile Zingg exhibited at the Galerie Druet in Paris. He met Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier in Perros-Guirec.

He was captivated by the decorative aspect of Nabis painting. Following this encounter, his style developed with an economy of means.
Following his exhibition at the Druet gallery, Jules Emile Zingg gained a certain degree of renown. He subsequently exhibited his paintings in major Parisian galleries as well as abroad.
In 1926 the "Belfort Society of Fine Arts" was created, which organised important exhibitions every year until the Second World War at the museums of Belfort in which Jules-Émile Zingg participated along with Georges Fréset, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Jean-Eugène Bersier, Raymond Legueult, Anders Osterlind, Henry de Waroquier, René-Xavier Prinet.
Museums
• In Cosne-sur-Loire, around twenty works are kept in the museum, following a bequest from Émile Loiseau in 1970, including his portrait by Jules-Émile Zingg.
• Gray (Haute-Saône), Baron-Martin Museum.
• Meudon, Museum of Art and History.
• Montbéliard, Museum of Art and History
Source
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules-Émile_Zingg
https://bretagne-expertises.com/julesemile-zingg