Jean René Bazaine

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Jean René Bazaine

Jean René Bazaine (born December 21, 1904 in Paris , † March 4, 2001 in Clamart near Paris) was a French artist of abstract painting and a representative of French tachism . Bazaine left a large number of mosaics and leaded glass windows in churches.

Life

He studied 1922-25 at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian and at the same time literature at the Sorbonne . In 1924 he made two study trips to Italy and began to paint there. His first exhibition took place in 1932 as a group exhibition together with the artists Jean Fautrier , Jean Pougny and Marcel Gromaire in Paris. Since then he has enjoyed the support of Pierre Bonnard .

After the end of the German occupation of France, he had his first major solo exhibition in the gallery of Aimé Maeght in 1949/50 and was one of the artists at the École de Paris .

In addition to his paintings, he created large mosaics for the UNESCO building in Paris, in Lund, Sweden, and for the University of Metz . From the late 1950s and 1960s, his works were exhibited internationally, for example in Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. In Paris in 1965 an exhibition was held at the Musée National d'Art Moderne . In Germany, Jean-René Bazaine was noticed as a participant in documenta 1 in 1955 and in Documenta in 1959 and 1964. In the 1970s, Bazaine illustrated a number of books by French writers such as Raymond Queneau , Jean Tardieu , Marcel Arland , Jean-Claude Schneider , Claude Esteban , Pierre Oster Soussouev and Eugène Guillevic . His stained glass windows for the Église Notre-Dame-de-Toute-Grâce in Passy , the Paris Saint-Séverin church and the Sacré-Coeur church in Audincourt (1949/50) are known.

Bazaine was married to actress Catherine de Seynes-Bazaine . The couple had two children.

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personal data
SURNAME Bazaine, Jean René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bazaine, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2001
Place of death Clamart