Jean-Gaspard Deburau
Search results
If Deburau is known today, he is known as the Deburau of Children of Paradise. There he is an exemplar of the common people, a tragic long-suffering lover, a friend of the pure and lonely and distant moon.
Jean-Gaspard Deburau (born July 31, 1796, Kolín, Bohemia [now in Czech Republic]—died June 17, 1846, Paris, France) was a Bohemian-born French pantomime actor, who transformed the character of Pierrot in the traditional harlequinade.
Jean-Charles Deburau (February 15, 1829 – December 19, 1873) was an important French mime, the son and successor of the legendary Jean-Gaspard Deburau, who was immortalized as Baptiste the Pierrot in Marcel Carné's film Children of Paradise (1945).
Jean-Gaspard Deburau was probably the most famous face in the French nineteenth-century, and even now, everyone knows him, even if they don’t realise it, since he invented the modern image of the Pierrot character.
Deburau: Pierrot, Mime and Culture. Jean-Gaspard Deburau was perhaps the most famous face in nineteenth-century France. Even now, everyone recognises him, even if they don’t realise as much.
In this article Edward Nye explores the reasons for Deburau's success from two perspectives: first, by considering Deburau's reputation for clarity of expression, and the absence of critical or public debate over any obscurity; and second, the context of the Romantic movement which primed spectators to appreciate his style of performance.
Jean-Gaspard Deburau was the nineteenth-century mime artist who created a new model for subsequent performers to either imitate or reject, but hardly to ignore. Silent cinema benefited from the nineteenth-century vogue for the mime in general – and the Pierrot character that he did so much to
Jean-Gaspard Deburau is renowned for being the greatest and most influential mime artist before Marcel Marceau (who himself was influenced by Deburau) in the twentieth century.
Jul 1, 2022 · Deburau was an iconic figure for intellectuals such as George Sand who effectively considered him to be part of the ‘poète-maçon’ movement. Edward Nye examines this fascination as...
Jean Gaspard Deburau (both: zhäN gäspär´ dəbürō´), 1796–1846, French pantomime performer, whose original name was Jan Kaspar Dvorjak, b. Bohemia. He became famous for his introduction of the pantomime character Pierrot at the Théâtre des Funambules.
