Bernard Dufour

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Bernard Dufour (born November 21, 1922 in Paris , † July 22, 2016 in Foissac , Aveyron ) was a French painter . He is one of the most important representatives of abstract painting after the Second World War.

Life

Bernard Dufour originally studied agricultural engineering. During the Second World War he was forced to do labor in Germany. He went to Germany with Alain Robbe-Grillet , where they met Claude Ollier . In the winter of 1944/1945 Dufour went to the University of Heidelberg and studied Eugène Delacroix and Stéphane Mallarmé . After the end of the war he began to copy the works of Michelangelo and Tintoretto in the Louvre .

Dufour had his first solo exhibition in the Maeght Gallery in 1948, followed by exhibitions in the Jeanne Bucher Gallery between 1951 and 1953. Motivated by these successes, he soon signed an exclusive contract with the art dealer Pierre Loeb . Bernard Dufour was in contact with numerous writers, including René de Solier , André Pieyre de Mandiargues , Georges Lambrichs , Paule Thévenin and Alain Jouffroy . In the 1950s, his art received international attention. In 1959, Dufour was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel .

In 1961 he set up a new workshop in an old mill on the Aveyron near Foissac, where he also lived. He was a participant in the Venice Biennale in 1964. During this time he made new, lasting friendships with other literary avant-garde writers such as Pierre Guyotat , Denis Roche , Catherine Millet and Jacques Henric . In the 1970s, Bernard Dufour became interested in photography , parallel to his painting . In 1991 Jacques Rivette made a film: La Belle Noiseuse , which is also based on part of Bernard Dufour's life.

Dufour also painted numerous representational portraits and human figures. His art often also has erotic components. The models in his pictures are often presented in the company of the painter. This visible relationship with the model puts the viewer of his pictures in a voyeuristic position.

Bernard Dufour lived and worked in Villeneuve.

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décès de Bernard Dufour, part de la femme

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personal data
SURNAME Dufour, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2016
Place of death Foissac (Aveyron)