Alfred Manessier
Alfred Manessier ( born December 5, 1911 in Saint- Ouen on the Somme; † August 1, 1993 in Orléans ) was a French painter.
Life
Manessier wrote in 1926 initially for the architecture class at the École des Beaux -Arts in Amiens one. From 1929 to 1933 he studied art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he also operational studies in the Louvre. In 1935, he was at the Académie Ranson student of Roger Bissière and became friends with Jean Le Moal. He bent quickly to Cubism to, but go later surrealist influences into his work. In 1938 he settled in Paris, took from 1942 to 1949 annually on "Salon d' Automne " in 1943 at the "Salon de Mai ", which he co-founded, and in 1944 at the "Salon de la Libération " in the Musée National d'Art Modern part in Paris. He was a member of the Association des Artistes et Écrivains révolutionnaires AEAR.
After staying at the Trappist monastery of La Grande Trappe in Soligny he waved in his oeuvre to be religious themes. He preferred bright colors with mosaic structures were superimposed linear form of expressive signs; therefore he came also to stained glass. So he designed the windows of the crypt of the church of St. Gereon in Cologne, the crypt of the collegiate church of Essen, the windows of the Church of All Saints in Basel and the Church of Our Lady in Bremen.
In the 1950s and 1960s Manessier was one of the most important representatives of the École de Paris. The structure of his painting has now been relaxed in more intensive colors, including travel impressions from Provence, from Spain and Holland contributed. The painting The Crown of Thorns (1950 ) in the " Musée National d' Art Moderne " is for this phase of work. A visit to Spain in 1966 led to a further harmonization and the beginning of a series of paintings in the style of lyrical abstraction ( Country Festival, 1974).
Alfred Manessier counted in France to the masters of abstraction. In 1993, he died on the night of July 31, August 1 following a traffic accident. He was buried (Somme ) in his birthplace, Saint- Ouen.