Jean Crotti
Jean -Joseph Crotti ( born April 24, 1878 in Bulle in Fribourg; † 30 January 1958 ) was a Swiss- French painter and graphic artist of the Dada movement.
Life
Jean Crotti was the son of Ticino from the originating Charles Crotti and younger brother of the later well-known physician André Crotti. Originally it was involved in his father's facade painter and Gipsereigeschäft in Freiburg, but instead took in the winter semester 1894/95 to study at the School of Applied Arts in Munich, which, however, did not meet his expectations. In 1898 he was an intern in a studio for stage decoration in Marseille before moving to Paris to study art recorded at the prestigious Académie Julian in 1901. He married in 1908 his first wife Antoinette Yvonne Chastel.
Initially, from Impressionism, Fauvism later influenced by, Nabis and Art Nouveau, he began to experiment in 1910 and turned on Cubism Dadaism to. First works he was able in 1907 at the Salon d' Automne in Paris and 1908 exhibit at the Salon des Independants.
Due to the outbreak of World War Crotti traveled with his wife to America in 1915, first to his brother in Ohio, then to New York. In New York, he learned the art collectors Walter and Louise Arensberg couple know and became friends with Francis Picabia. In autumn and winter 1915/16 he shared a studio with Marcel Duchamp, here he also met his sister Suzanne know.
In the autumn of 1916 Crotti separated from his wife Yvonne Chastel and returned to Paris, where he married soon after his divorce Suzanne Duchamp in 1919. In the following years, he painted numerous paintings and placed them in major galleries in England, France, Germany and the United States.
In the late 1930s, Crotti developed a technique of stained glass, which is called " Gemmail ". This colored glass parts are coated on a clear glass plate with an adhesive and joined together by heating. By lighting the work from behind the appearance of three-dimensionality is obtained. Among other things, worked Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque using this technique.
Jean Crotti died in 1958 at the age of 79 years to a heart attack, the same day as his brother André.
Crotti heirs gave his personal documents such as correspondence, essays and photographs the "Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution ."