Jean Le Moal
Jean Le Moal (born October 30, 1909 in Authon-du-Perche , France , † March 16, 2007 in Chilly-Mazarin , France) was a French painter , theater decorator and sculptor . He is one of the most important representatives of abstract painting after the Second World War .
Life
Jean Le Moal spent his childhood in the Ardèche department and often traveled to Brittany . In 1923 he went to Annecy High School . From 1926 Le Moal studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon . He visited museums, studied painting and the literature of Élie Faure .
In 1929 he moved to Paris. There he dealt with the art of Paul Cézanne , with Le Corbusier , the current currents of Cubism and Fauvism and with the work of Othon Friesz , Amedeo Modigliani , Chaim Soutine and André Derain . In the Louvre he copied paintings from different eras.
He began studying at the Académies de Montparnasse . In 1931 he met Alfred Manessier and in 1935 Jean Bertholle . He had an intense friendship with both of them. Together with Alfred Manessier, he enrolled at the Académie Ranson with Roger Bissière . Together with Étienne Martin and François Stahly , Le Moal dealt with sculpture.
He exhibited together with Bertholle, Bissière, Manessier, Etienne Martin and Stahly in 1936 in Lyon, in 1938 and 1939 in the Paris Salon d'Automne ( autumn salon ), as well as the group " Témoignage ", which was directed by Marcel Michaud . In 1937 he met Robert Delaunay and decorated a pavilion at a traffic fair with Bertholle and Manessier. With Jean Bazaine he designed a pavilion in a youth hostel. At the same time he also worked as a theater decorator.
He took part in the “ Vingt jeunes peintres de tradition française ” exhibition organized by Bazaine in the Braun Gallery in 1941 with Bertholle, Charles Lapicque , Manessier, Édouard Pignon , Gustave Singier and others. With such exhibitions they all protested against the defamation of modern art as degenerate art by the National Socialists .
In 1952, Le Moal's wife, the sculptor Juana Muller, died . In the following decades his art received international attention and recognition. In 1959 he was a participant in the documenta II in Kassel . Up until old age he worked artistically as a theater decorator, painter and designer of glass windows in churches and cathedrals.
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
- Exhibition catalog of the exhibition in the Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper from June 15 to September 17, 2018 with texts by Philippe Bouchet, Kate Kangaslahti, Guitemie Maldonado, Jacques Beauffet, Michel-Georges Bernard and Michel Duport, Quimper 2018, ISBN 978-2-35906 -206-9
Web links
- Jean Le Moal in French museums ( Joconde database )
- Jean Le Moals Océan (1958–1959) at: Musée de Quimper
- Homepage about Jean Le Moal
- Materials by and about Jean Le Moal in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le Moal, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | LeMoal, Jean; Moal, Jean Le |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter, theater decorator and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Authon-du-Perche , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 2007 |
| Place of death | Chilly-Mazarin , France |