Jean Deyrolle biography

Jean Deyrolle was a French painter and among the main exponents of French Abstract Art. He was born in Nogent-sur-Marne in 2011. From 1928 to 1931 he attended the School of Art and Advertising in Paris where he learned engraving techniques and made his first lithographs. After a stay in Morocco, in 1933 he returned to France, where he approached Neocubism with a particular focus on Georges Braque, Roger de La Fresnaye and Juan Gris.
From the early forties he came into contact with the Neoplasticism of César Domela which led him to progressively abandon figuration in favor of abstraction.
In the immediate post-war period he exhibited at the Denise René Gallery, first with the abstract artists Hans Hartung, Marie Raymond, Jean Dewasne and then with the concretists Richard Mortensen, Victor Vasarely and Alberto Magnelli, who had a profound spiritual influence on him.
In 1948 he won the Kandinsky Prize and in the same year held a solo exhibition at the Denise René Gallery, followed by other solo exhibitions in France and abroad.
In 1953 Jean Deyrolle teaches at the Fernand Léger Academy and from 1959 begins teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich.
The artist will continue to work tenaciously until 1967, the year he dies in Toulon, where he was being treated.