Jean Deyrolle biography

Jean Deyrolle was a French painter and one of the main exponents of French Abstractism . 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 1940s he came into contact with the Neoplasticism of César Domela which led him to progressively abandon figuration in favor of abstraction.
Immediately after the war he exhibited at the Denise René Gallery, first with the abstractionists Hans Hartung, Marie Raymond, Jean Dewasne and then with the concretists Richard Mortensen, Victor Vasarely and Alberto Magnelli, who will have on him a profound spiritual influence.
In 1948 he won the Kandinsky Prize and in the same year he held a personal exhibition at the Denise René Gallery, which was followed by other solo exhibitions in France and abroad .
In 1953 Jean Deyrolle taught at the Fernand Léger Academy and in 1959 he began teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
The artist will continue to work tenaciously until 1967, the year in which he died in Toulon, where he was being treated.