Jean Dewasne
Jean Dewasne (born May 21, 1921 in Lille , † July 23, 1999 in Paris ) was a French painter , sculptor and author . His works are attributed to abstract constructivism .
Live and act
Jean Dewasne played the violin at the age of six . When his interest in music waned, he began to work in plaster of paris and from around 1939 painted in a pointillist style. At the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris , he took courses in architecture for two years and worked as a teacher of perspective and as a science journalist.
From around 1943 he started abstract painting. Together with Hans Hartung , Nicolas de Staël and Serge Poliakoff, he belonged to a group of artists led by gallery owner Denise René , in whose gallery he exhibited from 1945 to 1956 together with Sonia Delaunay , Hans Arp , Antoine Pevsner and others.
In 1946 he was one of the founders of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris. In the same year he and Jean-Jacques Deyrolle were the first to be awarded the Prix Kandinsky . In 1949 he resigned from the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles because he did not agree with the aesthetic orientation. With Edgard Pillet (1912–1996) he founded the “Atelier de l'Art Abstrait” in 1950, which became a meeting place for young artists from the international art scene.
In 1952 and 1968 his works were exhibited at the Venice Biennale . In 1975, the walls of the Hauptbahnhof underground station in Hanover were designed according to his designs .
In 1991 he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .
Awards
- 1946: Prix Kandinsky
- 1991: Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
Fonts
- The forces plastiques. Au Crayon Qui tue Ed., Paris 1993.
- “Je suis le point de fuite.” La bataille de San Romano vue par un des lapins. Au Crayon Qui tue Ed., Paris 1999.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Dewasne in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jean Dewasne - Une vie sans concession ( Memento of September 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (English, French)
- Jean Dewasne on universalis.fr (French)
- Jean Dewasne (1921–1999) ( Memento from March 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on rogallery.com (English)
- Herman Braun-Vega: Picture by Jean Dewasne (1982)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean Dewasne - La première passion n ° 111 on lempertz.com
- ^ Board in the Hanover underground station
- ^ Jean Dewasne on the website of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dewasne, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter, sculptor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lille , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1999 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |