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Jacques Germain BIOGRAPHY
1915 - 2001. Known for: Abstract painting.
An abstract painter of the post-war School of Paris, Germain developed a technique known as Abstraction Lyrique and served as one of the prominent members of it in Paris alongside Mathieu, Bryen,... Read full biography
An abstract painter of the post-war School of Paris, Germain developed a technique known as Abstraction Lyrique and served as one of the prominent members of it in Paris alongside Mathieu, Bryen, Riopelle, and Lanksoy. Abstraction Lyrique valued personal expression of the artist and made sure not... Read full biography
An abstract painter of the post-war School of Paris, Germain developed a technique known as Abstraction Lyrique and served as one of the prominent members of it in Paris alongside Mathieu, Bryen, Riopelle, and Lanksoy. Abstraction Lyrique valued personal expression of the artist and made sure not to be limited by geometric standards. At the age of sixteen, Germain worked with cubist painter Fernand Léger at the l'Académie Moderne. A year later at the Bauhaus, Germain worked with Willem... Read full biography
An abstract painter of the post-war School of Paris, Germain developed a technique known as Abstraction Lyrique and served as one of the prominent members of it in Paris alongside Mathieu, Bryen, Riopelle, and Lanksoy. Abstraction Lyrique valued personal expression of the artist and made sure not to be limited by geometric standards. At the age of sixteen, Germain worked with cubist painter Fernand Léger at the l'Académie Moderne. A year later at the Bauhaus, Germain worked with Willem Kandinsky, whose name for many historians is synonymous for abstraction. When France declared war on Germany in 1939, Germain joined the French Army, was captured and held as prisoner of war until 1945. He had his premier exhibition at the Salon de... Read full biography
An abstract painter of the post-war School of Paris, Germain developed a technique known as Abstraction Lyrique and served as one of the prominent members of it in Paris alongside Mathieu, Bryen, Riopelle, and Lanksoy. Abstraction Lyrique valued personal expression of the artist and made sure not to be limited by geometric standards. At the age of sixteen, Germain worked with cubist painter Fernand Léger at the l'Académie Moderne. A year later at the Bauhaus, Germain worked with Willem Kandinsky, whose name for many historians is synonymous for abstraction. When France declared war on Germany in 1939, Germain joined the French Army, was captured and held as prisoner of war until 1945. He had his premier exhibition at the Salon de Surindépendents in 1947. Painting with heightened personal expression, he developed the style for which he b... Read full biography
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An abstract painter of the post-war School of Paris, Germain developed a technique known as Abstraction Lyrique and served as one of the prominent members of it in Paris alongside Mathieu, Bryen, Riopelle, and Lanksoy. Abstraction Lyrique valued personal expression of the artist and made sure not to be limited by geometric standards.
At the age of sixteen, Germain worked with cubist painter Fernand Léger at the l'Académie Moderne. A year later at the Bauhaus, Germain worked with Willem Kandinsky, whose name for many historians is synonymous for abstraction. When France declared war on Germany in 1939, Germain joined the French Army, was captured and held as prisoner of war until 1945. He had his...But wait, there's more...
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