Gaston Chaissac

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Gaston Chaissac (born August 13, 1910 in Avallon , † November 7, 1964 in La Roche-sur-Yon ) was a French painter , draftsman and writer . Jean Dubuffet initially assigned it to the Art Brut , but later revised this assignment.

Life

Marked by illness from childhood, he never managed to make a living through his art, this was ensured by his wife Camille and his occasional work as a shoemaker .

Gaston Chaissac died in 1964 at the age of 54 in La Roche-sur-Yon hospital. It rests in the municipal cemetery in Vix ( Département Vendée ).

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Gaston Chaissac was self-taught . In his first artistic attempts he was supported by the German artist Otto Freundlich, who lived in exile in Paris, and his partner Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss . While searching for a new form of expression, Chaissac came across prehistoric cave paintings and children's drawings . That is why he also studied the works of his contemporaries Georges Braque , Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso .

Chaissac painted on every painting surface available to him . Typical for him are monochrome surfaces that are bordered with black color. The motif is often the human face, which is often only shown as a mask or pair of eyes. In addition to drawings , watercolors , gouaches and oil paintings , collages , painted objects and totems have appeared since around 1959 .

Chaissac tried to connect to the artist community in order to benefit financially from his level of awareness. He was not only in close correspondence with gallery owners, authors and artists, but also because he liked to write a lot. Some days he wrote several letters. In later works his love for writing is evident.

Others

Matthias Beltz named Chaissac in the FAZ questionnaire as his preferred painter alongside Otto Nagel .

Exhibitions

  • 2013: Chaissac / Dubuffet. Entre plume et Pinceau . Musée de la poste , Paris. Catalog.
  • 1996: Kunsthalle Tübingen , Gaston Chaissac , June 22 - August 25, 1996 (first exhibition of the artist in Germany)

Works

  • Gaston Chaissac: 1910-1964; Exhibition: New Gallery of the City of Linz; Kunsthalle Tübingen; From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt . - Ostfildern-Ruit near Stuttgart, 1996. ISBN 3-7757-0612-7
  • Gaston Chaissac - Hippobosque au Bocage: letters and hippoboscal poems . - Bern 1993. ISBN 3-906127-37-0

literature

  • Barbara Nathan-Neher: Chaissac . - Stuttgart, 1987. ISBN 3-608-76238-8 (New York, 1987. ISBN 0-8478-5485-X )
  • Françoise Brütsch: Gaston Chaissac: a biography . - Bern, 1993. ISBN 3-906127-38-9
  • Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath, Anja Petz: Gaston Chaissac, 1910–1964 . Catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibitions in the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum; Kunsthalle Tübingen; From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal; Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje, 1996, ISBN 3-7757-0612-7
  • Uwe Hauptenthal: Gaston Chaissac. Painting, drawing, objects. Verlag der Kunst, Husum 2008, ISBN 978-3-86530-107-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss. Épouse Kind, découvreuse de Chaissac . In: Cornette de Saint Cyr (ed.): Art Moderne & Art Contemporain . Paris 2012, p. 103–135 (French, digitized version of the catalog under cornettedesaintcyr.fr [PDF]).

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personal data
SURNAME Chaissac, Gaston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, draftsman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Avallon
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1964
Place of death La Roche-sur-Yon