Jean-Michel Atlan

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Jean-Michel Atlan (born January 23, 1913 in Constantine , Algeria , † February 12, 1960 in Paris ) was a French philosopher , painter and illustrator .

Life

Jean-Michel Atlan came from a Jewish family. Between 1930 and 1934 he studied philosophy at the Paris Sorbonne University . After the German occupation of France, Atlan lost his teaching license under the Vichy regime and lived in poverty in the Paris district of Montparnasse . During this time he devoted himself to painting for the first time and acquired self-taught artistic skills.

Because of his involvement in the French Resistance and his Jewish descent, Atlan was arrested in 1942. The artist was interned at the Hôpital Saint-Anne for two years after pretending to be mentally ill . After the liberation of France in 1944, Atlan exhibited for the first time and published his poetry collection Le Sang profond . After a brief initial success and recognition by a few avant-garde writers, Atlan later lived as a peddler and fortune teller.

A poster that Atlan designed for the exhibition of the new École de Paris in the Charpentier Gallery and an exhibition in the Bing Gallery in 1956 gave him his artistic breakthrough. Jean-Michel Atlan died in 1960 of complications from cancer ; he is considered one of the most important representatives of the " Nouvelle École de Paris ".

Today his paintings are u. a. owned by the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Exhibitions

  • 1945 L'Arc-en-Ciel Gallery, Paris
  • 1947 Galerie Maeght, Paris
  • 1957 Palais des Beaux-Arts , Brussels
  • 1959 Kaplan Gallery, London
  • 1960 Recent Paintings and Gouaches. The Contemporaries Gallery, New York
  • 1963 Retrospective Atlan . Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris
  • 1964 Retrospective Atlan . Tel Aviv Museum of Art , Tel Aviv
  • 1965 Mobilier national . Manufacture nationale des Gobelins, Paris
  • 1966 Tanya Bing Gallery, Cannes
  • 1969 Deuxième Hommage à Atlan . Salon Corner, Copenhagen
  • 1971 Saint-Léger Gallery, Geneva
  • 1980 Retrospective Atlan . Musée national d'Art Moderne, Center Georges-Pompidou , Paris
  • 1982 Troisième Hommage à Atlan . Salon Corner, Copenhagen
  • 1986 Retrospective Atlan . Premières périodes, 1940-1954. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
  • 1987 Atlan. Les litographies des années 1945 à 1959 . La Hune Gallery, Paris
  • 1988 Bernard Cats Gallery, Brussels
  • 1989 Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris
  • 2008 Jaques Elbaz Gallery, Paris
  • 2019 Jean-Michel Atlan et la Nouvelle École de Paris. SETAREH, Düsseldorf

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personal data
SURNAME Atlan, Jean-Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher, painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantine , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1960
Place of death Paris