Heinrik Neugeboren, called Henri Nouveau, is born in Brasov-Kronstadt (Transylvania) in 1901. He takes the Hungarian nationality in 1914. From 1921 to 1925, he studies at the Academy of Music in Berlin, then goes to Paris where he studies composition at the Normal School of Music (Ecole Normale de Musique) with Nadia Boulanger until 1927; later he returns to Germany and attends the Bauhaus Dessau, where he binds with Klee and

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  Biography of Henri Nouveau

  Heinrik Neugeboren, called Henri Nouveau, is born in Brasov-Kronstadt (Transylvania) in 1901. He takes the Hungarian nationality in 1914. From 1921 to 1925, he studies at the Academy of Music in Berlin, then goes to Paris where he studies composition at the Normal School of Music (Ecole Normale de Musique) with Nadia Boulanger until 1927; later he returns to Germany and attends the Bauhaus Dessau, where he binds with Klee and Kandinsky. In 1929, he settles permanently in Paris. He begins painting in 1923 (non-figurative collages) attending the movement Der Sturm in Berlin. In 1946, he interrupts his musical production to devote exclusively to painting. Henri Nouveau paints over 700 paintings: his early collages are followed by pastels (period 1925-1930); then oil paintings on small paper sizes. His poetic sensibility and a penchant for humor often tempers the harshness of his geometric compositions. Encouraged by Francis Picabia, Henri Nouveau participates in 1946 in the first Salon of New Realities (Salon des Réalités Nouvelles), he becomes member of this Salon in which he continues to expose each year. The artist, who participates in several group exhibitions abroad (Zurich, Stockholm, Berlin, etc.), has very little opportunity for personal exhibitions (Colette Allendy Gallery in 1950, Arnaud Gallery in 1951 and Today Gallery in Brussels in 1955). After his death (Paris, 1959), France's Gallery devotes to him a retrospective, follows by several other provincial and abroad museums (including Amsterdam and Leverkusen). Henri Nouveau leaves us an important musical (under the name of Neugeboren) and pictorial work, but also a written work, in his diary that he begins when he is just fifteen.
  

  

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