André Warnod
André Warnod was a French writer, goguettier, art critic, and illustrator, who witnessed the artistic scenes of Montmartre and Montparnasse during the 1910s-1930s.
Biography
André Warnod was born in Giromagny on April 24, 1885, the son of Édouard Warnod, a Protestant industrialist in Giromagny, and Alice Herr. His grandfather, Édouard Warnod, married to Laure Boigeol, and was also an industrialist and served as the president of the general council of Belfort. André had two brothers: Robert, who died for France in 1916, and Pierre, married to Lucie Mouttet, daughter of Louis Mouttet. He married Andrée Cahen-Berr in Paris-9° on August 25, 1915.André Warnod was the first to coin the term "École de Paris" in an article for Comœdia, published on January 27, 1925. He reiterated this term in October of the same year in the introduction to his book "Les berceaux de la jeune peinture".
He was a member, alongside other well-known or lesser-known personalities, of the goguette du Cornet.
During World War I, he served in the Russian Ambulances, led by Colonel Dimitri d'Osnobichine.,
He was a member of the Mortigny circle, founded by Dimitri d'Osnobichine, in 1908 which brought together numerous artists and regulars of Parisian life: Bernard Boutet de Monvel, Pierre Brissaud, Georges Villa, Guy Arnoux, Joë Hamman, Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola, Joseph Pinchon, Paul Poiret, Pierre Troisgros, Jean Routier, Henri Callot, Pierre Falize, Pierre Prunier, a circle that operated until the 1950s.
His signature can be found in the magazines "Paris Sex-Appeal" and "Mon Paris".
Warnod died in Paris on 10 October 1960.