Gabriel Robin (painter)
Gabriel Robin (born May 28, 1902 in Nantes , † June 28, 1970 in Aulnay-sous-Bois ) was a French shoemaker and painter, who is attributed to the Nouvelle École de Paris .
Life
After practicing various trades in factories and construction sites, Robin attended evening drawing classes at the Belleville Art School for five years . From 1931 he lived in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois, where he worked as a shoemaker in his house in the mornings. The rest of the day he painted.
In 1932 he took part in the founding of the anarchist artist group “Les Indélicats”, whose members came mainly from the artisan and working class and which until 1934 published a magazine of the same name with an edition of 100 copies, illustrated by Maurice Estève , Édouard Pignon , Roger Falck, George Ort, Adrien Cumora, Gisele Delsine, Louis Féron, André Fougeron, Marcel Debarbieux and Gabriel Robin.
The art dealer Paul Rosenberg visited him in Aulnay-sous-Bois in 1938 and bought the large-format paintings that had just been completed. Following the advice of Georges Braque , Rosenberg bought more paintings. After the outbreak of World War II , Rosenberg had to leave France and went to New York .
Gabriel Robin was soon recognized by critics and the art market. In February 1943 he took part in the exhibition of the twelve contemporary painters organized by the art critic Gaston Diehl in the "Galerie de France". Thanks to André Lhote and Jacques Villon , with whom he was long friends, Robin became successful. André Lhote and his wife Simone Camin organized their first solo exhibition in 1943 in the “Galerie Pittoresque”.
Until 1950 Robin exhibited several times in Paris at the Galerie de France, the Salon de Mai, the Salon d'Automne , the Musée du Luxembourg as part of an exhibition of contemporary French art (1946), as well as in Lyon, in Saint-Étienne, in Nantes and finally in Lille.
He also showed his works in 1945 in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo during the exhibition “The French Painters of Today” and in 1962 in Tokyo and Osaka as part of the International Exhibition of French Painting.
In the early 1950s he experimented with new sculptural and stylistic means that resembled those of lyrical abstraction. The art dealers didn't like that, and the new works didn't get any recognition. The artist withdrew from the art market and reopened his shoemaker's workshop in Aulnay-sous-Bois, but continued to paint until his death in 1970. At the same time, Robin actively participated in "L'Orpheon", a group of friends from Aulnay,
Self-portrait 1928
Bowl, bottle, book 1928
The storm on the plain in 1950
literature
- Robin, Gabriel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 81-82 .
- Frédéric Ballesteros: Gabriel Robin. In: Lumières, Couleurs, Formes . École d'art Claude Monet, Aulnay-sous-Bois 2008, pp. 34–35.
- Daniela Papenberg: Robin, Gabriel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 99, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023265-3 , p. 126.
Web links
- Gabriel Robin on artnet
- Rétrospective Robin à l'Espace Gainville
- Lumières, couleurs et forms irisent l'Hôtel de ville
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Robin, Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nantes |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1970 |
| Place of death | Aulnay-sous-Bois |