Jacques Germain
Jacques Germain (born January 13, 1915 in Paris , France , † 2001 in Paris) was a French painter and graphic artist . He is one of the most important representatives of abstract art and printmaking after the Second World War .
Life
In 1930 Jacques Germain was a student of Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant at the Académie Moderne in Paris. From October 1930 to July 1931 he studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau with Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers . From 1932 to 1933 he attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Willi Baumeister , where he learned advertising graphics. From 1936 to 1943 he did his military service, during the war he stayed in Germany as a prisoner of war.
In 1949 his first solo exhibition took place in the Galerie des Deux-Iles in Paris. He took part in exhibitions in the Salon de Mai in 1951 and 1952, and in a group exhibition in the Maeght Gallery . In 1953 his paintings were shown in the Pierre Gallery in Paris. A solo exhibition was dedicated to him in 1955 at the Warren Gallery in Paris. He participated in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles from 1949 to 1964 and in numerous group exhibitions throughout his career. In 1957 he exhibited in Lausanne in the Grand Chêne bookstore and in Paris in the Art Vivant gallery, together with André Lanskoy and Nicolas de Staël .
From this time on, numerous exhibitions followed in France and abroad, especially in Germany: 1958 in the Galerie der Spiegel in Cologne ; In 1959 he took part in documenta 2 in Kassel in the graphics department; in 1960 there was another exhibition in Paris, in the Dina Vierny gallery ; in 1961 at the Galerie Adrien Maeght Paris; in 1964 at the Melisa Gallery in Lausanne ; in 1967 at the Messine Gallery in Paris; in 1970 in the Galerie de France and exhibitions in the Benelux countries, e.g. B. in Brussels ; in 1988 at the Arnoux Gallery in Paris.
literature
- 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
- Wolfgang Kermer : Willi Baumeister: Typography and advertising design. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-89322-145-X
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| SURNAME | Germain, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2001 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |