Jean Metzinger

Jean Metzinger ( born June 25, 1883 in Nantes, † November 3, 1956 in Paris) was a French painter. His style evolved from Neo-Impressionism through the Fauvism toward the analytical cubism.

Biography

Metzinger spent his youth in his native town and moved in 1903 at the age of 20 years to Paris to study medicine. However, he soon gave up this plan to become a painter. In Paris he became friends with Robert Delaunay and encountered the poet Max Jacob, who introduced him to the circle to Guillaume Apollinaire. So he learned the painter of the Bateau - Lavoir know, in particular, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris. In 1910 Metzinger presented at the Salon des Independants from 1911 where he again took part, either together with Delaunay, Albert Gleizes and Fernand Léger. In 1912 he co-founded the " Section d' Or" and wrote with Gleizes the treatise Cubisme. Numerous other exhibitions, including at the Salon d' Automne (1911, 1913), in the " Galerie de la Boétie " in Paris ( 1912), in the galleries of The Tempest in Berlin (1913 ), where he at the First German Autumn Salon a picture exhibited, " Berthe Weill " (1913, Paris ) and the " Montross Gallery" in New York ( 1916) testify to the rapid, now also the international success of the painter, who was later appointed to the Académie de la palette, to the Académie Arenius.

In World War Metzinger was drafted and then returned to Paris, where he apart from his stay in Bandol to 1943 during the Second World War, lived up to its end of life. There he received a three-year teaching position at the Académie Frochot in 1950.

Jean Metzinger died at the age of 73 years in Paris.

Work

Metzinger initially looked at the neo-impressionist painting style, which led him in the years between 1905 and 1908 to mosaic-like color patterns and can be considered as its first artistic zenith. This late neo-impressionist paintings with their exact juxtaposed color patches already struck a bridge to his later cubist works, was already here but the slope for the design and the preference for a clear structure. Thus, the style of painting became increasingly geometric and his new image design supports through artistic exchange with Braque, Picasso and Gris. Metzinger's work around 1909 finally documenting the direction which later called analytical cubism, but was initially rejected completely added to the criticism. In the 20 years Metzinger solved temporarily by Cubism.

In 1910 he put his theories down literary: They appeared under the title Notes on the painting. 1912 led the collaboration with Albert Gleizes to the common theoretical treatise Cubisme, which was very quickly on everyone's lips. Occasion of the centenary anniversary of the publication Cubisme in 2012 an exhibition was held at the Musée de la Poste held in Paris, showed the works of writers and painters Metzinger and Gleizes and other contemporary artists.

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