Jacques-Charles Delahaye

Relief "La Bataille" at the Bochum Art Museum

Jacques-Charles Delahaye (born June 17, 1928 in Paris , France , † May 2010 in France) was a French sculptor . He was one of the most important representatives of abstract art after the Second World War .

Life

Jacques-Charles Delahaye was one of the most important exponents of non-representational sculpture, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. He studied at the École des Arts Appliqués and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Jacques-Charles Delahaye had his first participation in the Salon de la Jeune Sculpture in Paris in 1952 and his first solo exhibition in 1956 at the Stadler Gallery in Paris. At the end of the 1950s, Delahaye was represented at important exhibitions in France and other countries. In 1959 he took part in the First Paris Biennale and represented two bronze sculptures at documenta 2 in Kassel . In 1965 he took part in the Tokyo Biennale .

Jacques-Charles Delahaye was professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1975 to 1993 .

His sculptures often have a furrowed and jagged surface that makes them look dehydrated .

Jacques-Charles Delahaye lived and worked in Offranville in Haute-Normandie, France .

literature

Theo Bergenthal; Joachim Stracke (ed.): The sculptor Jacques Delahaye - le sculpteur Jacques Delahaye . Bönen 2006, ISBN 3-937390-84-7
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

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personal data
SURNAME	Delahaye, Jacques-Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Delahaye, JC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH	May 2010
Place of death	France