Jean-Olivier Hucleux
Jean Olivier Hucleux (* 1923 in Chauny , Département Aisne , France ; † May 17, 2012 in Paris ) was a French contemporary painter and draftsman and an important exponent of realism and photorealism . He was known for his portraits of well-known personalities.
Hucleux lived in Vaux-sur-Seine .
life and work
Jean Olivier Hucleux made his first attempts at painting in 1945, shortly after the Second World War , but he stopped painting in the same year and then for more than twenty years. During this time he worked in various professions before he decided to devote himself to art again in 1968.
He began to paint from photo templates, in the same way as one paints from nature. One of his first series was “ Cimetières ” ( cemeteries ), where he placed cemeteries and car “cemeteries” next to each other. This work made him internationally known and enabled him to exhibit his work for the first time. With the “ Cimetières ” he was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Realism department . The work has also been included in important collections, including the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris .
From 1974, he devoted himself exclusively to portraits. The works of this period and the portraits created later made him famous. He has been painting and creating pencil drawings and portraits of famous artists since the 1960s. He portrayed Henri Matisse , Marcel Duchamp , Francis Bacon , Alberto Giacometti , Pablo Picasso , Joseph Beuys , among others . In 1984 he was commissioned to portray the former French President Georges Pompidou . A year later he painted the then incumbent President François Mitterrand .
From 1990 he began drawing his so-called “ dessins de déprogrammation ” (“ deprogramming drawings ”). A first major retrospective of his complete oeuvre took place in Lyon from 1999 to 2000.
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
- Galerie Mitte (ed.); Catalog for the exhibition Huclex / Novarina: du travail à l # oevre - An artist friendship ; Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-936951-13-4
Web links
- Examples of his works
- the-artists.org
- Examples of his works: portraits
- Materials by and about Jean-Olivier Hucleux in the documenta archive
Individual proof
- ^ Décès du peintre Jean Olivier Hucleux , French , accessed on May 31, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hucleux, Jean-Olivier |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hucleux, Jean Olivier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chauny , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th May 2012 |
| Place of death | Paris |