14 Facts About Marius Plamondon

Marius Plamondon was a Canadian sculptor and stained glass artist who made a significant contribution to the revival of the art of stained glass in Quebec during his lifetime.

Marius Plamondon was born in 1914 in Quebec City, Quebec.

Marius Plamondon studied at the Quebec City Ecole des beaux-arts.

Marius Plamondon spent time in Italy where he studied sculpture.

Marius Plamondon was interested in the work of the sculptor Jean Lambert-Rucki and his use of the expressive distortions of African art.

Marius Plamondon insisted that stained glass artists had to evolve new ways of expression to complement the new, simplified architecture of the time.

Marius Plamondon became professor and director of the Quebec School of Fine Arts.

Marius Plamondon made twenty windows for the chapel of the novitiate of the Clerics of Saint Viator, Joliette, described in a 1947 study by Maximilien Boucher.

In 1954 Marius Plamondon's stained glass windows were installed in the 1920s Eglise du Tres-Saint-Sacrement in Quebec, adding color to a rather austere neo-Romanesque nave.

Marius Plamondon was among the artists selected to decorate the interior of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, owned by the Canadian National Railway, which opened in 1958.

Between 1958 and 1978 Marius Plamondon created ten windows in the aisles of the Oratory.

Marius Plamondon made fourteen stained glass windows for the clerestory representing the virtues and qualities of St Joseph, as well as two semicircles and a rosette.

Marius Plamondon was a popular soprano who performed on radio and in concerts between 1930 and 1950.

Marius Plamondon's wife continued to perform under her maiden name for some years.