Max Papart

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Max Papart (born December 19, 1911 in Marseille , † August 29, 1994 in Paris ) was a French painter, graphic artist, illustrator and collage artist.

Born in Marseille, Max Papart first studied painting at the École des Beaux Arts in his hometown. In 1936 he moved to Paris where he worked as a printer. He exhibited at the "Salon des Indépendants" and began to occupy himself with the technique of aquatint etchings and created his first prints using this technique. Papart participated in various group exhibitions; In 1938 the Galerie Bureau in Paris organized his first solo exhibition. During the German occupation he returned to Marseille to join the Resistance there.

In 1946, after the liberation of France, Papart exhibited in the Sébiere gallery in Marseille. In the second half of the fifties he met César , Henri Goetz, Jean Michel Atlan, James Coignard , Antoni Clavé , artists who had found a new home in the south of France. Starting from the post-cubist style, his interest is now more focused on abstraction.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Max Papart developed his own abstract, post-cubist and symbolist formal language full of poetry and humor. As a lithographer, etcher and painter, he often falls back on the mixing and collage technique and takes it to a new dimension. From 1970 he began to create carborundum etchings, a technique that his friend Henri Goetz had developed in 1968. Within a few decades, a large number of large-format etchings and collages were created, some as illustrations of works by the poets Jacques Prévert , Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes and Xavier Bordes (Le Grand Cirque Argos).

Max Papart's life is characterized by an intensive artistic examination of the work of other artists (e.g. Lucas Cranach, Courbet, Picasso). In 1969 he received a professorship for printmaking at the Université de Paris VIII in Vincennes, which he held until 1974. From 1978 Papart also lived in New Orleans and New York, where his works were shown in many solo exhibitions.

In 1994 Max Papart died in Paris. The French art historian André Parinaud prophesies: "We will rediscover Papart as a master of the second generation of Cubists."

Papart's works can be found in numerous museums around the world: (selection) Victoria and Albert Museum, National Gallery, London, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Fondation Maeght, St. Paul de Vence, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

literature

  • Max Papart - Auserlesene Werke , Frankfurt 1993, Ed .: Galerie Raphael; M. Papart, Monograph, J.-M. Dunoyer, Rizzoli IP, New York, 1984
  • Max Papart , monograph, R. Green, Ed. Cercle d'Art Poligrafa, Espagne, 1985; Max Papart, retrospective, Ed. Hanin Nocera Gallery, Paris, 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Papart - Auserlesene Werke, Frankfurt 1993, Ed .: Galerie Raphael; M. Papart, Monograph, J.-M. Dunoyer, Rizzoli IP, New York, 1984
personal data
SURNAME Papart, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, graphic artist, illustrator and collage artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1994
Place of death Paris