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Place of Birth: Mer, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Alexandre Bigot
- Alexandre Bigot (5 November 1862 – 27 April 1927) was a French ceramicist.
- He was primarily a ceramics manufacturer; producing the designs of many artists and architects of the French Art Nouveau movement; including: Jules Lavirotte, Hector Guimard, Louis Majorelle, Henri Sauvage, Henry van de Velde, Auguste Perret, Andre Arfidson, Anatole de Baudot and more. Bigot was a physics and chemistry instructor who became interested in ceramics in 1889 after viewing Chinese porcelain at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
- With his knowledge of chemistry, Bigot was able to create glazes with a large variety of colors and finishes.Bigot's firm was based at Rue des Petites Ecuries, Paris and he also created a ceramics factory in Mer in 1889 which employed as many as 150 people.
- Samuel Bing, a German art dealer in Paris, displayed works by Bigot, among others, and was responsible for exposing the Art Nouveau style.
- Bigot’s Parisian firm closed in 1914 due to a decline in the popularity of Art Nouveau.
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