Jean Brenner
Jean Brenner ( born April 23 1937 † February 2009) was a painter from Mulhouse, France.
Life and work
He came from an artistic family from Alsace, his father Joseph was a professor of textile drawings. 1956 Jean Brenner began his studies at the Ecole Municipale des Beaux Arts. From 1960 to 1962 he traveled through North Africa and studied in 1964 at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. His work was shown in 1971 in New York, Berlin and back in New York. In 1972, he won the Palme d'Or des Beaux Arts in Monte - Carlo.
In 2008, he returned with a retrospective at the Musée des Beaux Arts back to his hometown of Mulhouse.
His style ranges from stitches on lithographs, drawings, collages and photography. His works are either colorful still lifes, which are borrowed from Cézanne and Monet, or abstract portraits in black and white drawing.
He spoke fluent French, German, English and his native Alsatian.
Jean Brenner died in February 2009.