Renoir, Jean
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born on | 15 September 1894 at 23:00 (= 11:00 PM ) | ||||
Place | Paris, France, 48n52, 2e20 | ||||
Timezone | PMT m2e2015 (is standard time) | ||||
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natal chart (Placidus)
natal chart English style (Equal houses)
natal chart with Whole Sign houses
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from Bergan's biography: shortly after midnight | |||
Date | 15 September 1894 at 00:05 (= 12:05 AM ) | ||
Place | Paris, FR, 48n52, 2e20 | ||
Timezone | PMT m2e2015 (is standard time) | ||
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Biography
French film director and noted family, the son of the artist Pierre Auguste Renoir. His films which include Zola's "Nana," 1926, "La Grande Illusion," 1937, "The Rules of The Game" 1939 and "Diary of a Chambermaid," 1946 are considered masterpieces of cinema. He is the author of several books including "Renoir, My Father," 1962, "The Notebooks of Captain Georges," 1966 and "My Life in Film," 1976.
After directing a total of 36 films, he received a special Academy Award in 1975. Known for poetic realism, he wrote the script for "Le Grande Illusion," 1973, considered one of the world's best antiwar dramas. Renoir's work markedly influenced the New Wave of film making that emerged in the late '50s. His work also includes "Madame Bovary," 1934, and "the River," 1950.
Renoir spent an idyllic childhood among the rural landscapes his father loved to paint. When his mother died during his youth, his cousin Gabrielle, 15 years his senior, became a model surrogate parent to him and his two brothers, one of whom grew up to be actor Pierre Renoir. At the time of Gabrielle's death in 1959, she was Renoir's next door neighbor.
After serving in WW I, where he was awarded the Croix de Guerre, Renoir studied ceramics. He then began writing screenplays and soon turned to filmmaking. Renoir left France for Lisbon in 1940 after the German invasion and came to America in February 1941 at the invitation of documentarian Robert Flaherty, eventually becoming a U.S. citizen and an exile to Hollywood. Desperate to accommodate his artistic vision to the demands of the studio system, he persisted against great odds and achieved his goal in his film about the struggles of farm life ,"The Southerner" in 1945.
Returning to Paris after the War, Renoir resumed his career and became the icon of the New Wave in French cinema despite his previous reputation at being a poor draw at the box office. "The further things go, the more we have two kinds of cinema. We have the one that makes a lot of money, and that, shall we say, stupefies the public with the most ordinary pap. Then there are the people who try to do something that's a little better."
Renoir's early marriage to Catherine Hessling ended in divorce and he a made second marriage to Brazilian Dido Freire in 1941. He died of Parkinson's Disease and a heart attack on 2/12/1979 in Beverly Hills, CA.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Dieudonné, Albert (born 26 November 1889)
- associate relationship with Lestringuez, Pierre (born 17 October 1889)
- associate relationship with Reiniger, Lotte (born 2 June 1899). Notes: Film collaborators
- friend relationship with Brunius, Jacques (born 16 September 1906)
- friend relationship with Cézanne, Paul Jr. (born 4 January 1872)
- friend relationship with Champagne, Pierre (born 17 April 1894)
- child->parent relationship with Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (born 25 February 1841)
- spouse relationship with Hessling, Catherine (born 22 June 1900). Notes: 1920-1943
- sibling relationship with Renoir, Claude (born 4 August 1901)
- sibling relationship with Renoir, Pierre (born 21 March 1885)
- has other family relationship with Renard, Gabrielle (born 1 August 1878). Notes: his nanny
- compare to chart of Bachelet, Jean (born 8 October 1894)
- compare to chart of Perry, George Sessions (born 5 May 1910). Notes: Renoir made the film 'The Southerner' based on Perry's book
- compare to chart of Simon, Michel (born 9 April 1895)
Events
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1976 (My Life in Film)
- Death by Heart Attack 12 February 1979 (Parkinson's and heart attack, age 84)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
Source Notes
Gauquelin Vol 5/663, 11:00 PM Paris time. Copy of BC in Didier Geslain archive, 'Cinema Realisateurs' pdf file, pp. 162-164.
Bjorkstrand writes on astro.com on 22-dec-2009: Source = (book)Jean Renoir by Ronald Bergan, Page 3 "Shortly after midnight on 15 September 1894, a midwife held a baby up for the mother to see." The Rodden Rating has been dowgraded to C due to this data conflict.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Parkinson's (Terminal)
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Heart (Terminal attack)
- Family : Childhood : Family noted (Dad)
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Hobbies, games (Gardening, cooking)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 84)
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Director
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- 1894 births
- Birthday 15 September
- Birthplace Paris, FR
- Sun 23 Virgo
- Moon 1 Aries
- Asc 8 Cancer
- 1979 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Parkinson's
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Heart
- Family : Childhood : Family noted
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Hobbies, games
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Entertain/Business : Director
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction