Untitled 3/73 VI, 1973

Oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm
7/73 XXXII, 1973

Oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm
4/77 VIII, 1977

Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm
Untitled XXXIV, 1950

Pastel on paper, 47.5 x 31 cm
Untitled 9/58 CIX, 1958

Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm
Untitled

Oil on canvas, 92 x 60 cm
UFO XXIII, 1970

Oil on canvas, 65 x 65 cm

Jean Leppien Catalogue - works available

« I expected to learn the secrets of artistic creation and painting techniques. What I learned was much more: to question everything and start from scratch, but to believe with a proud humility in Creation, even at the risk of breaking windows to replace them. To build a bridge from Giotto to Kandinsky, from Bach to jazz, to doubt both, but to believe in the Bridge. »

— Jean Leppien

JEAN LEPPIEN

Born in 1910 in Lüneburg, Germany, died in Paris in 1991.

We rarely speak without saying one word too many. Others, with this excess of language, will create a painting. They want the overflowing of their hearts to sing. Jean Leppien knows this music too, as we all do, attentive inhabitants of this century. However, he prefers moderation, so dear to Socrates; it is tedious wisdom that irresistibly attracts him. He only desires to make it smile. Here, then, is an art of painting where brief and clear geometry reigns, geometry in all its known rigor, with, discreetly, a touch of humor.

When the spirit is joined with voluntary poverty, there is no wealth in the world capable of equaling its charm.

Michel Seuphor

Works in museums and public collections

Bauhaus Archive, Berlin

Museum of Grenoble, France

Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy

Childminders of the city of Paris

Strasbourg Museum

Selection of the main exhibitions

2000 Old Customs House, Strasbourg Museum, France

2004 Gerhard Fietz Haus, Göddingen, Germany

2005 Grimaldi Castle Museum, Cagnes-sur-Mer