Jean Brenner (23 April 1937 – February 2009) was a
painter from
Mulhouse
Mulhouse (; Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning '' mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace a ...
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France
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Life and work
Brenner came from an artist family from Alsace; his father Joseph was the professor of
textile drawings. In 1956, Jean Brenner began his studies at the Ecole municipale des Beaux Arts. From 1960 to 1962, he traveled in North Africa. In 1964, he studied at the
Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. Brenner became an
art teacher at that school, before he dedicated himself to intensive studio work to prepare his first international exhibition. His work was shown in 1971 in New York City (twice) and Berlin. He received the
Palme d'Or des Beaux Arts in
Monte-Carlo in 1972 and exhibited in Rome.
Since then, many further exhibitions and honours have followed. He had his first exhibition and retrospective in his hometown of Mulhouse in the Musée des Beaux Arts in the Villa Steinbach in autumn of 2008.
Brenner's media is very diverse, including techniques such as
engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an in ...
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lithography,
collage and
photography
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...
. His paintings range from
still-lifes with flowers and full landscapes to
abstract portraits in black and white. Some of his works reference
Cézanne and
Monet. He spoke fluent French, German, English and his native Alsatian.
Jean Brenner died in February 2009.
Mulhouse Nécrologie / Décès du peintre Jean Brenner
, ''Une oeuvre foisonnante'', dna, Dernières Nouvelles D'alsace, 2009-02-26
Awards
* 1972 Palme d'Or des Beaux Arts, Monte-Carlo
Notes
External links
Info-Culture.net , Retrospektive Jean Brenner
2008-11-10
1937 births
2009 deaths
Modern painters
Artists from Mulhouse
Painters from Alsace
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