Francis Gruber
Illustration — Francis Gruber Self-portrait (1942) at the Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy. Francis Gruber (15 March 1912 – 1 December 1948) was a French painter, founder of the Nouveau Réalisme school, and a member of the Forces nouvelles group. He was born in Nancy, France, the son of stained glass artist Jacques Gruber.
Francis Gruber
Francis Gruber · Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy · Public domain
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- 1912 · Nancy.
- Died
- 1948 · Paris.
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- France
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- painter · artist
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- Expressionism
- Education
- Académie Scandinave
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Francis Gruber Self-portrait (1942) at the Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy. Francis Gruber (15 March 1912 – 1 December 1948) was a French painter, founder of the Nouveau Réalisme school, and a member of the Forces nouvelles group. He was born in Nancy, France, the son of stained glass artist Jacques Gruber.
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Born at Nancy in 1912, died in Paris in 1948.
Francis Gruber studied at Académie Scandinave. The recorded working language is French. Work by Francis Gruber is recorded in the collections of Tate, Musée d'art moderne de Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy and Harvard Art Museums.
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- 1.Le Monde, .
- 2.« Francis Gruber, peintre du tourment et du déséquilibre », dans Le Figaro du 15 mars 2010.
- 3.« Francis Grüber, l'œil à vif, rétrospective du peintre dans sa ville de Nancy », sur francetvinfo.
- 4.Le musée possède sept toiles de l'artiste, venant de la donation Maurice et Simone Combe.
- 5.Agnès Chauvin. L'ancien ministère de la Marine marchande. La protection du patrimoine en Ile-de-France au XXIe siècle. 2017. p. 88.
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- Catalogue du musée d'art moderne de Paris, consacré à l'exposition Francis Gruber (1976), , textes en français et en allemand, préface de Jacques Lassaigne, « Francis Gruber » par Tristan Tzara, « L'enterrement à Thomery » par Louis Aragon.
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