Art Paris

We will focus on the work of Jean Leppien (born in Lüneburg in 1910, died in Paris in 1991), a German artist who studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1929, where he was a student of Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky. In 1931-32, he worked with Moholy-Nagy in Berlin. He fled Germany in 1933 and settled in Paris.

He will be surrounded by some of his friends and contemporaries, such as Jean Deyrolle (1911-1967), professor at the Munich Academy of Art in 1959, Alberto Magnelli (1888-1971), Aurélie Nemours (1910-2005), and Victor Vasarely (1906-1997).
These artists of the post-war geometric abstract movement were all haunted by the idea of ​​rebuilding the world and making it a better place to live through art. During his career, Jean Leppien directed the geometric abstract section of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, where he maintained friendly relations with younger artists of this movement. Jean Leppien's heirs will donate some of his works to the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau and Weimar, and the Cholet Museum will dedicate an exhibition to him from April to September 2017.

Another section of the booth will be dedicated to our contemporary artists and the latest news from the gallery. There you will find paintings by Charles Bézie and Jean-François Dubreuil, works by Nicholas Bodde paired with sculptures by Siegfried Kreitner, and a look back at the latest work by Sigurd Rompza. Sculptures by Jean-Patrice Rozand and paintings by Jean-Michel Gasquet and Renaud Jacquier Stajnowicz will complete the selection we are offering this year.