Jean-Yves Dousset
Jean-Yves Guy Denis Rolland Dousset (born November 19, 1945 in Saint Viaud, Loire Atlantique) is a French painter and poet .
Life
Dousset comes from a farming family. His childhood in a region whose main source of income, agriculture, had suffered greatly from the long war years, was shaped by the hardships of the post-war years. He lost his father at the age of twelve. Since he did not have the financial means to attend a secondary school, he began an apprenticeship as a baker at the age of 14 and pursued various activities in agriculture. In 1965 he joined the French armed forces and was stationed in Trier on the Moselle at his own request, because he had read French poets such as Victor Hugo, Th. Gautier, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, all of whom were strongly influenced by German Romanticism aroused his interest in Germany. Less interested in a military career, now in the rank of sergeant, he used his time in the French army primarily for literary studies.
In 1971 he left the armed forces prematurely and moved to Berlin. There he continued his various studies, became a model and deepened his drawing skills at the Academy of Arts. In addition, he researched the connection between philosophy, religion and music using the clay flute as an example. He worked as a silhouette artist and portrait caricaturist on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm . Travel through Germany and almost all (free) European countries followed. Especially to Italy, where he later bought a small house in the Apennines.
Fascinated by Asian music and philosophy, he hitchhiked through the Middle East to Band-e-Amir, Srinagar, in search of ancient music, clay flutes and musicians. After this trip, he set up his studio in Berlin and took part in wall painting with his friends Christophe Bouchet and Thierry Noir, from which, however, he soon distanced himself. For the Zucker-Museum Berlin, he made silhouettes for Franz Carl Achard, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf and Carl Scheibler in 1980, which were used in 1992 for the postage stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Sugar Institute in Berlin. In July 1989 he left Berlin and moved to Mainz. In 1991 he set up a studio in the Cochem-Zell district. From 1997 to 2008 he lived and worked in Briedel. As a result of the economic crisis, he had to give up his studio in 2008 and went back to France. He has lived in Wissembourg since 2010.
To this day he works as a silhouette artist and portrait caricaturist at public and private events. However, his main occupation is poetry. In 2013 his third French-German poetry volume was published.
Publications
- A la Dérive or The Art of Drifting, atelier / edition ad absurdum Berlin 1984
- Silhouette & silhouette, Christophorus-Verlag Freiburg i. Breisgau, 1987
- Jeux de Lumières, Rhein-Mosel-Verlag Briedel, 1994
- Vent d'Ouest Vent d'Est / Westwind Ostwind, Projekt-Verlag Halle, 2013
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ the daily newspaper of February 27, 2007: Tim Ackermann: Two ideas, three colors, accessed on March 8, 2014
- ↑ diegeschichteberlins.de: 200 years of beet sugar , accessed on March 8, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dousset, Jean-Yves |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dousset, Jean-Yves Guy Denis Rolland (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Viaud, Loire Atlantique |