Jean René Bazaine

Jean René Bazaine ( born December 21, 1904 in Paris, † March 4, 2001 in Clamart, near Paris ) was a French artist of abstract painting and a representative of the French Tachism. Bazaine has left a large number of mosaics and stained glass windows in churches.

Life

He studied 1922-25 at the École des Beaux -Arts and at the Académie Julian and at the same literature at the Sorbonne. In 1924, he undertook two study trips to Italy and began painting there. His first exhibition was in 1932 as a group exhibition with the artists Jean Fautrier, Jean Puni and Marcel Gromaire in Paris. Since then, he enjoyed the support by Pierre Bonnard.

After the German occupation of France, he had 1949/50, the first major solo exhibition at the Galerie Maeght Aimé and was one of the artists of the Ecole de Paris.

Besides his paintings he created great mosaics as for the building of UNESCO in Paris, in Lund, Sweden, and for the University of Metz. From the late 1950s and in the 1960s, his works have been internationally exhibited, for example, in Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. In Paris, an exhibition at the Musée National d' Art Moderne took place in 1965. In Germany Jean -René Bazaine was perceived as a participant of the documenta 1 in 1955 and the Documenta in 1959 and 1964. In the 1970s, Bazaine illustrated a number of books of French writers such as Raymond Queneau, Jean Tardieu, Marcel Arland, Jean -Claude Schneider, Claude Esteban, Pierre Oster Soussouev and Eugène Guillevic. Known are its stained glass windows for the Église Notre- Dame-de- Grâce in Toute - Passy, the Paris church of Saint- Séverin and the Sacre Coeur Church in Audi Court (1949 /50).

Achieved on the art market his oil paintings up to 105,000 U.S. dollars.

Bazaine was married to actress Catherine de Seynes - Bazaine. The couple had two children.

Exhibitions

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