Jean Degottex
Jean Degottex (born February 25, 1918 in Sathonay-Camp ( Rhone ), France , † December 9, 1988 in Paris , France) was a French painter . He is one of the most important representatives of abstract painting after the Second World War .
Jean Degottex served as artist , a self-taught . He began to paint at the age of 21 (1939) during an extended stay in North Africa . He lived in Tunis from 1938 to 1941 . His first pictures are pale red landscapes in the style of Fauvism . He gave up this direction relatively quickly and devoted himself entirely to abstract painting.
In 1951 he was awarded the Prix Kandinsky . In 1952 he exhibited at the Maeght Gallery in Paris. His second solo exhibition was already very well received, it was opened by André Breton . Jean Degottex is considered one of the pioneers of lyrical abstraction and action painting . From 1953 he exhibited in the exhibition: " Younger European Painters " of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , his art in New York City had an enormous impact and influence on the young painters of the New York School . In 1959 Degottex participated in documenta 2 in Kassel .
In his art, Degottex often used Asian materials such as Chinese ink and paper, as well as modern and traditional materials such as glue and acrylic combined. He combined western styles with the gestures and brushstrokes of calligraphy . At the end of the 1960s he painted his famous “ Métasphères ”, where he drew a perfect circle on monochrome paintings as a symbol of universality.
Jean Degottex lived and worked in Gordes in Provence for over thirty years because, as he said, “ the blue light there ” was so much a part of his art.
Works in museums and collections
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York, USA
- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA
- Royal Museums of Fine Arts , Brussels
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liàge, Liège
- Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna
- Pinacothàque de GutaÔ, Osaka, Japan
- Musee National de Bezalel, Jerusalem , Israel
- Collection Peter Stuyvesant, Amsterdam
- Musée National d'Art Moderne, Center Georges Pompidou , Paris
- Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture de Grenoble
- Musée Cantini , Marseille
- Malmo Konsthall , Sweden
- Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris
- Musee de Dijon
- Cabinet d'Art Graphique, Center Georges Pompidou , Paris
- Régie Renault, Recherches Art et Industrie
- Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
- Toulon Museum
- The Ohara Museum of Art, Tokyo
- A. Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
- Museum of Evreux
- Régional d'Art Contemporain de Bretagne Fund
- Musee de Dunkerque
- Régional d'Art Contemporain Fund, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Regional Art Contemporain Fund, Languedoc-Roussillon
- Régional d'Art Contemporain Fund, Upper Normandy
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
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Degottex, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sathonay-Camp ( Rhone ), France |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1988 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |