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Jean Leppien
"This small blue spot, which the prisoner calls "sky", has haunted all my works."
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Jean Leppien disparaît le 19 octobre 1991 à Paris. Il repose auprès de son épouse dans le très beau cimetière de Roquebrune-Cap Martin (Alpes-Maritimes) où ils vivaient. Sur les hauteurs du village, leur tombe (située dans le carré G), un simple rectangle planté d'herbes folles, de romarins et de lavandes, surplombe le bleu infini de la mer. La dernière demeure de Le Corbusier est à peine à une dizaine de mètres de la leur. En leur hommage, avec respect, un sensible coquelicot.
"Pendant un certain temps, en prison - car ma vie est pleine de péripéties plaisantes ou déplaisantes - j'avais une ardoise où tous les jours j'effaçais mes dessins de la veille." - Jean Leppien
"Abandonner le monde des objets et les apparences pour rendre visible un monde existant autant et plus que l'univers matériel qui nous entoure : le monde de l'esprit." - Jean Leppien
"Lorsque l'esprit se joint à la pauvreté volontaire, il n'y a, au monde, aucune richesse capable d'en égaler le charme." - Michel Seuphor
"N'est achevé pour Jean Leppien que le tableau qui le surprend lui-même : celui qui échappe à l'idée germinale pour ne ressembler qu'à l'instant de cette séparation dont il demeure l'épreuve." - Eric Michaud
"Sa position dans l'art abstrait – ou serait-ce à la frontière de l'art abstrait - n'est-elle pas au centre même de ce que l'on appelle la peinture?" - Helmut R. Leppien
"Je ne peux pas me priver du plaisir de découvrir, je ne veux pas avoir où mène le chemin, ni même savoir si c'en est un." - Jean Leppien
Notes of biography
Jean Leppien was born in Germany (Lüneburg) in 1910. He was all together a painter, a lithographer and an illustrator. He died in Paris in 1991. He got the French naturalization in 1953. The artist began drawing in 1927. He studied to the School of the Bauhaus (Dessau) in 1929 and his teachers were Albers, Klee and Kandinsky. In Berlin (1931-32), he worked with Moholy-Nagy and learnt photography at the School Itten.
When the Nazis were in power, he left Germany and settled in Paris (1933). He lived by his wits. In 1939, because he believed in freedom for him and his adopted country, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. Demobilized, he lived for a while underground (Roquebrune, Alpes Maritimes), then became involved in the Resistance. Arrested, deported, released by the Allies, he went and joined his wife in Paris; she was also saved after a stay in Auschwitz.
From 1946, he painted again. He first exhibited at the Salon of the New Realities and became a member of the committee. He was attentive to the representation of the Constructivist movement.
All his life long he took part in collectives or personal exhibitions: the first one, in 1949, was in Paris, the last one took place in the Castle-Museum in Cagnes sur Mer (France) in 2005. A major retrospective was organized in 1997 at the Galerie Lahumière (Paris). Leppien liked studying colors, geometric shapes, and their connections with each other. Although he was attached to the original abstraction, Leppien stayed free and did not only belong to one movement. Friends who knew him said he was cordial, friendly, laugher, nostalgic, rigorous.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
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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* « J. Leppien. Oeuvre gravé 1948-1976 », Galerie Falazik Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, 1976 All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Leppien. Peintures 1927-1973 », A. Livio, Galerie Cavallero, Cannes, 1973
- « U.F.O. », Ed. Le Daily-Bul, 1973
- « Vers un midi », Gilles Plazy et J. Leppien, Ed. Ville de Gagnes/Mer, 1984
- « Jean Leppien », D. Giraudy, Musée d’Antibes, 1988
- « Regards par delà », Jean Leppien, Ed. Messidor, 1991
- « Hommage à J. L. : peintures 1947-1978 », Galerie Lahumière, 1995
- « Abstractions en France et en Italie, autour de J.L. », M. de Strasbourg, 1999
- « J. Leppien et la Côte d'Azur : Peintures 1947/1977 », Ed. Château-Musée Grimaldi, 2005
- « Abstraction, création, art concret… », Cat. D'expo. Galerie Drouart, Paris, 2008
- « Jean Leppien : Concretamente spirituale », Matteo Galbiati, Ed. Vanilla, 2008
To read from the artist :
- « J. L. Bilder, Aquarelle, Druckgraphik », Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 1976
Website :
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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
+ Listen
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Jean Leppien
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Jean Leppien disparaît le 19 octobre 1991 à Paris. Il repose auprès de son épouse dans le très beau cimetière de Roquebrune-Cap Martin (Alpes-Maritimes) où ils vivaient. Sur les hauteurs du village, leur tombe (située dans le carré G), un simple rectangle planté d'herbes folles, de romarins et de lavandes, surplombe le bleu infini de la mer. La dernière demeure de Le Corbusier est à peine à une dizaine de mètres de la leur. En leur hommage, avec respect, un sensible coquelicot.
"Pendant un certain temps, en prison - car ma vie est pleine de péripéties plaisantes ou déplaisantes - j'avais une ardoise où tous les jours j'effaçais mes dessins de la veille." - Jean Leppien
"Abandonner le monde des objets et les apparences pour rendre visible un monde existant autant et plus que l'univers matériel qui nous entoure : le monde de l'esprit." - Jean Leppien
"Lorsque l'esprit se joint à la pauvreté volontaire, il n'y a, au monde, aucune richesse capable d'en égaler le charme." - Michel Seuphor
"N'est achevé pour Jean Leppien que le tableau qui le surprend lui-même : celui qui échappe à l'idée germinale pour ne ressembler qu'à l'instant de cette séparation dont il demeure l'épreuve." - Eric Michaud
"Sa position dans l'art abstrait – ou serait-ce à la frontière de l'art abstrait - n'est-elle pas au centre même de ce que l'on appelle la peinture?" - Helmut R. Leppien
"Je ne peux pas me priver du plaisir de découvrir, je ne veux pas avoir où mène le chemin, ni même savoir si c'en est un." - Jean Leppien
Art movements
+ NON FIGURATIVE ART / 1942-1975 / Jean Bertholle, André Beaudin, Jeannie Dumesnil, Hanna Ben-Dov, Elvire Jan, Charles Lapicque, etc.
+ SCHOOL OF PARIS / 1945-1960 / Jean Degottex, Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Staël, etc.
+ NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
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