Pierre Tal-Coat

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Pierre Tal-Coat (born December 12, 1905 in Clohars-Carnoët , Brittany as "Pierre Louis Jacob"; † June 12, 1985 in Vernon ) was a French painter.

Life

Pierre Louis Jacob was born the son of a Breton fisherman. He moved to Paris in 1924, where he adopted the artist surname Tal-Coat to avoid confusion with the artist and poet Max Jacob . ("Tal-Coat" means "wooden face" in Breton).

plant

Pierre Tal-Coat is an important representative of the “École de Paris” of the post-war period. He co-founded the “ Tachism ” movement in the mid-1940s, a French version of Abstract Expressionism . Tachism (from French “taches” = spots) preferred the spontaneous act of painting of conscious shaping.

His art found numerous admirers among other artists, such as B. André Masson .

Tal-Coat has written books and specialist articles on painting .

His drawings and lithographs were characterized by a minimalist formal language.

In 1968, Tal-Coat was awarded the French “Grand Prix National des Arts”

Solo exhibitions

(Selection)

  • 1927 first solo exhibition at Galerie AG Fabre, Paris
  • 1945-1946 Galerie de France, Paris
  • 1954 Solo exhibition in the Maeght Gallery
  • 1957 Kunsthalle Bern
  • 1960 Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
  • 1963 Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris (1963)
  • 1969 Maisons de la Culture in Le Havre and Amiens
  • 1970, 1972, 1975, and 1979 Galerie Benador, Geneva
  • 1973 Galerie l'Entracte, Lausanne
  • 1974 Musee de Metz
  • 1975 Musee Royal de Parc Veno, Tokyo
  • 1976 Factory retrospective at the Grand Palais, Paris
  • 1979 Karsten Greve Gallery , Cologne / Ditesheim Gallery, Neufchâtel
  • 1983 Patrice Trigano Gallery, Paris
  • 1985 Musee des Beaux-Arts, Quimper
  • 1987 Maison de la Culture, Bourges
  • 1988 Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rennes / Center National des Lettres, Paris

Pierre Tal-Coat was a participant in documenta 1 in 1955 and also in documenta II in 1959 in Kassel .

literature

  • Danie Abadie / Christian de Manoir, Tal-Coat; Paris: Patrice Trigano Gallery, 1983
  • Alice Baxter et al., Tal-Coat, Parcors 1945-1983; Evreux: Musée d'Evreux, 1983
  • Samuel Beckett and Pierre Duthuit, "Three Dialogues: Tal-Coat, Masson, and Bram van Velde," in Transition n. 5; Paris, 1949
  • André Carious / Daniel Dobbels, homage to Pierre Tal-Coat; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, 1985
  • Michel Dieuzaide, Vers La Courbure: L'Atelier de Pierre Tal-Coat Vu Par Michel Dieuzaide; Paris: Clivages, 1983
  • Pierre Tal-Coat, Raoul-Jean Moulin, Andre du Bouchet, Tal-Coat; Paris: Grand Palais, 1976
  • Pierre Tal-Coat, verse ce qui fut est ma raison profonde de vivre; Lausanne: Françoise Simecek, 1983
  • Pierre Tal-Coat, Retrospective des dessins et oeuvres sur paper; Rennes: Musé des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, 1988

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personal data
SURNAME Tal-Coat, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacob, Pierre Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Clohars-Carnoët , France
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1985
Place of death Vernon , France