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Gérard Schneider
"The liberation of art cannot be successful except in abstract form, the fruit of a necessary interior expression."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Gérard Schneider est mort le 8 juillet 1986 à l'âge de 90 ans. La messe mortuaire fut célébrée le samedi 12 juillet à l'Eglise Saint- Sulpice. Dans l'une des chapelles de l'Eglise, dite la Chapelle des Anges, se trouvent plusieurs peintures de Delacroix. Pendant l'office des tableaux de Schneider furent placés à côté de ceux de Delacroix. L'artiste fut inhumé au cimetière Montparnasse. Chacun jeta une rose dans la tombe ouverte. Son ami, le critique Michel Ragon, prononça le discours funèbre qu'il termina ainsi : ". . . Nous ne sommes pas réunis ici pour te dire adieu, mais pour te demander de continuer à nous dispenser ta lumière". En hommage, avec respect, cette rose.
"Gérard Schneider était un homme libre, un indépendant, un rêveur et un inspiré." - Michel Ragon
"Libre au spectateur d'interpréter selon ses sensations, nos sentiments et nos états mentaux, de la même manière qu'il réagirait à une sonate." - Gérard Schneider
"Je crois que l'abstrait est un état dégagé de toute influence extérieure." - Gérard Schneider
"L'oeuvre d'art étant essentiellement une création, l'abstrait se trouve être, du fait de sa condition, l'art le plus complet et le plus pur - il est aussi le plus autonome, l'art total." - Gérard Schneider
"Lorsque Schneider pose le pinceau sur la toile vierge, c'est comme s'il plaquait un accord." - Michel Ragon
"Schneider, obstinément, sans relâche, debout devant sa toile ou penché sur sa feuille, peint, peint et peint encore ; c'est sa façon de dire non à la mort." - Jean Orizet
Notes of biography
Gerard Ernest Schneider was born in 1896 in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland. After having studied in Neuchatel, he came to Paris and the beginning of the First World War and took courses at the School of Decorative Arts, then at the School of Fine Arts. His first solo exhibition is organized in Neuchatel in 1920 at the Leopold Robert Gallery. Gerard Schneider moves permanently to France in 1922. His formation allows him to restore old paintings. He participates in numerous group exhibitions from 1926 - the Salons d’Automne, the Surindependants, the Mai, the New Realists, etc.
His art evolves and passes through different phases until 1944: classical, figurative representation then imaginary, surrealism (1937), conception of monumental forms, lyrical and abstract. In 1939, Schneider meets Pablo Picasso. Between 1941 and 1943, he participates in teaching Gurjieff. In 1946, he joins artists who exhibit at the Denise Rene Gallery in Paris for the first abstract art exhibit after the war. He is naturalized French in 1948.
It is in the middle of the 50’s that his plastic language is defined, becoming spontaneous: the artist lets his instinct express itself, not leaving traces of impetuousness, which becomes his mark. After having diverse debuts, he imposes himself and takes an important place among the second generation of abstract artists, along with Hartung and Soulages. In opposition to geometric abstraction, his style is classified as lyrical abstraction of which he is one of the innovators.
Gerard Schneider, as well as painting, makes graphics, engraving and lithographs, and illustrates some works, those of Robet Ganzo, Eugenio Montake and Eugene Ionesco. He receives numerous prizes, exhibits in France and abroad. It must be noted that he exhibits in ‘Art of the 20th Century’ at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1977. An homage was held at the Salon d’Automne in Paris in 1979. Gerard Schneider died in Paris in 1986.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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* « L'œuvre peint sur toile », L. Schneider et P.- G. Persin, Galerie Diane de Polignac & Chazournes, Paris, en cours de réalisation All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Gérard Schneider », M. Brion, Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne, 1957
- Gérard Schneider », M. Pobé, Ed. Georges Fall, coll. «le Musée de Poche », 1959
- « Gérard Schneider », G. Kaisserlian, cat. d'expo., Ed. Gall. San Fedele, 1968
- « G. Schneider - Construction et devenir », G. Civica d’Arte Mod., Turin, 1970
- « G. Schneider, oeuvres de 1916 à 1986 », Fondation St-Louis Château d’Amboise, 1992
- « G. Schneider: oeuvres de 1916 à 1986 », Frederick, M. de la Culture de Nevers, 1993
- « Schneider : Peintures » J. Orizet, Ed. de La Différence, 1996
- « Schneider », Michel Ragon, Ed. Expressions contemporaines, 1998
- « Gérard Schneider, œuvres de 1935 à 1965 », B. Giraud, thèse,Univ. Paris 1, 1998
- « Gérard Schneider », G. Flaminio, Ed. Galleria Maggiore, 2008
To read from the artist :
- « Mots au vol », 1974 (Poèmes)
- « Gérard Schneider, rétrospective », Musée Beaux Arts, Orléans, You Tube, 2013
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Gérard Schneider
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Gérard Schneider est mort le 8 juillet 1986 à l'âge de 90 ans. La messe mortuaire fut célébrée le samedi 12 juillet à l'Eglise Saint- Sulpice. Dans l'une des chapelles de l'Eglise, dite la Chapelle des Anges, se trouvent plusieurs peintures de Delacroix. Pendant l'office des tableaux de Schneider furent placés à côté de ceux de Delacroix. L'artiste fut inhumé au cimetière Montparnasse. Chacun jeta une rose dans la tombe ouverte. Son ami, le critique Michel Ragon, prononça le discours funèbre qu'il termina ainsi : ". . . Nous ne sommes pas réunis ici pour te dire adieu, mais pour te demander de continuer à nous dispenser ta lumière". En hommage, avec respect, cette rose.
"Gérard Schneider était un homme libre, un indépendant, un rêveur et un inspiré." - Michel Ragon
"Libre au spectateur d'interpréter selon ses sensations, nos sentiments et nos états mentaux, de la même manière qu'il réagirait à une sonate." - Gérard Schneider
"Je crois que l'abstrait est un état dégagé de toute influence extérieure." - Gérard Schneider
"L'oeuvre d'art étant essentiellement une création, l'abstrait se trouve être, du fait de sa condition, l'art le plus complet et le plus pur - il est aussi le plus autonome, l'art total." - Gérard Schneider
"Lorsque Schneider pose le pinceau sur la toile vierge, c'est comme s'il plaquait un accord." - Michel Ragon
"Schneider, obstinément, sans relâche, debout devant sa toile ou penché sur sa feuille, peint, peint et peint encore ; c'est sa façon de dire non à la mort." - Jean Orizet
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