JEAN DEYROLLE WORKS

Jean Deyrolle was a French painter and one of the main exponents of French Abstractionism. 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 created his first lithographs. After a stay in Morocco, he returned to France in 1933, where he approached Neocubism with a particular focus on Georges Braque, Roger de La Fresnaye, and Juan Gris.
From the early forties, he comes into contact with Neoplasticism of César Domela, which will lead him to gradually abandon figuration in favor of abstraction.
In the immediate post-war period, he exhibited at the Denise René Gallery, initially with the abstract artists Hans Hartung, Marie Raymond, Jean Dewasne and later with the concrete artists Richard Mortensen, Victor Vasarely, and Alberto Magnelli, who would have a profound spiritual influence on him.
In 1948, he won the Kandinsky Prize and in the same year held a solo exhibition at the Galleria Denise René, followed by other solo exhibitions in France and abroad.
In 1953 Jean Deyrolle taught at the Fernand Léger Academy and from 1959 he began teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
The artist will continue to work with tenacity until 1967, the year he dies in Toulon, where he was being treated.