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Jules Emile Zingg
Jules-Emile Zingg (25 August 1882, Montbeliard, Doubs - 4 May 1942) was a French painter.
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Jules-Emile Zingg was born in Montbeliard in the mountainous Jura area of Eastern France, the son of a clockmaker and woodcutter. He started drawing at four. There he began to paint the peasants and countryside. He studied the design of clocks before winning a scholarship to study at the Beaux-Arts school college in Besancon under Felix Giacomotti in 1901. After a year he won a scholarship to study in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Fernand-Anne Piestre (known by the pseudonym of Fernand Cormon). He won the second Prix de Rome. His work was accepted at the Salon de Artistes Francais. He studied Paul Cezanne who became a major influence on his work. After World War I he began to exhibit at the Salon des Independants and the Salon d'Automne in a modernist style. At Perros-Guirec in Brittany he met the founder of Les Nabis, Maurice Denis, Paul Serusier and Georges Hanna Sabbagh.
In the 1920s, Zingg exhibited frequently in Paris. In 1930 he was awarded the Chevalier de la legion d'honneur. 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.
Zingg's work is to be found in many museum collections including the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Musee de la Ville de Paris, as well as museums in Besancon and other French towns. Retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held at the Musee de Pont-Aven (2004) and in Paris at the Musee Bourdelle (1990). After World War I one of his pupils was Claude Genisson.
Zingg died in Paris.