Claude Jeancolas (10 June 1949 – 10 February 2016) was a French writer, art historian, and journalist. He is best known for his work on Arthur Rimbaud.
Life Jeancolas spent his childhood and adolescence in Nancy, in eastern France. At the age of 16, after having attained a Baccalaureate Diploma, he moved to Paris. In Paris, he continued his studies in a preparatory class for the "grandes écoles," and afterwards entered the École Supérieure de Commerce of Paris (ESCP). He earned a degree from the Business School of the University of Texas, where he wrote his thesis on the management of the American press. Claude was a visiting scholar at various American universities, including UCLA, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State University, the School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri, and Columbia University in New York. He died on 10 February 2016.
Career
Journalism career Jeancolas began his career as the head of the financial analysis department of the weekly magazine Entreprise. He then founded two management journals: Enseignement et gestion and Revue Française de Gestion. Subsequently, he became the head of the avant-garde monthly Mode International. He later edited the magazines Collections, Décoration, and Mariages. He moved to Votre Beauté, a magazine that François Mitterrand edited early in his career. Jeancolas then joined the Hachette Group (now the Lagardère Group) as the international editor of Elle (which saw four editions created worldwide) and Elle Décoration (which saw 14 editions created worldwide). He also created Cousteau Junior and Max. Until 2012, he was the director of Marie Claire Maison and Marie Claire travel magazines in Milan.
Art historian career His interest in art developed in 1969 after meeting the sculptor Edmond Moirignot, with whom he became a close friend and later the guardian and executor of his will. In 1987, he published a monograph on the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Following this publication, Jeancolas studied the history of sculpture and French drawing. He later published two books on the Nabis and the Fauves.
Rimbaud Jeancolas studied Rimbaud's work and regularly published on the topic. He believed Rimbaud to be too intelligent to be incoherent, as he was at the top of his class. He also wrote about Une Saison en enfer. Additionally, he wrote about the poet's highly criticized mother, Vitalie Rimbaud, in a biography that aimed to demonstrate the love she had for her child and her importance to Rimbaud.
Bibliography Main publications: 1985 Moirignot. Éditions du St Gothard. Paris 1987 Carpeaux peintre et sculpteur. Edita. Lausanne 1991 La Sculpture italienne du XXe siècle. Éditions Van Wilder. Paris Les Voyages de Rimbaud. Balland. Paris Le Dictionnaire Rimbaud. Balland. Paris 1993 La Sculpture française. Fabbri. Milan 1995 Le Dessin en France de la renaissance au XXe siècle. Rizzoli. Milan 1996 L'œuvre intégrale manuscrite de Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris 1997 Le Don du père. Flammarion. Paris Les Lettres manuscrites de Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris 1998 Lettres et poèmes de Rimbaud. L'auberge verte. Paris Une saison en enfer de Rimbaud. Hachette. Paris Passion Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris 1999 Poésies de Rimbaud. Éditions mille et une nuits. Paris Rimbaud, la biographie. Flammarion. Paris Venise et ses peintres. Une histoire intime. Éditions Van Wilder. Paris L'Afrique de Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris 2000 Rimbaud, l'œuvre. Textuel. Paris 2002 La Peinture des Nabis. Éditions fvw. Paris 2004 Vitalie Rimbaud, pour l'amour d'un fils. biographie. Flammarion Rimbaud après Rimbaud, anthologie. Textuel. Paris 2005 Rimbaud, l'œuvre, la vie. Éditions France Loisirs 2006 Les Fauves, couleurs et lumières. Éditions FVW. Paris Moirignot, la vie, l'œuvre, le catalogue raisonné. Éditions FVW. Paris 2007 Le regard bleu d'Arthur Rimbaud. Éditions FVW. Paris 2008 in collaboration Fierté de fer with Joël Alessandra et Idriss Youssouf Elmi. Éditions Paquet. Genève L'aube du monde with Thibaut et Pascal Villecroix, Amina Saïd Chiré - FVW. Paris 2008 Le Retour à Tadjoura – l'Afrique secrète de Jean-François Deniau – FVW. Paris Many of these have been translated into German, Korean, Japanese and English.
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