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Jean Messagier was born on 13 July, 1920 in Montbéliard, France, is a French artist (1920–1999). Discover Jean Messagier's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 13 July, 1920
Birthday 13 July
Birthplace Montbéliard, France
Date of death 10 September, 1999
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Nationality France

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1920

Jean Messagier (Paris, 13 July 1920 – Montbéliard, 10 September 1999) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet.

Jean Messagier spent his childhood during the 1920s and 1930s between Paris and Franche-Comté, where he realized his first representational watercolors and drawings (1940); portraits and landscapes.

1941

He first exhibited his works in a group show at the Salon des Moins de Trente Ans in Paris (1941), before participating regularly in Parisian salons: Salon des Moins de Trente Ans, Paris, 1941–51; Salon d'Automne, 1947–52; Salon de Mai, 1948–53; Jeune Gravure Contemporaine, 1950; Young Painters of the Ecole de Paris, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1952; Mostra dell'Incisione Francese Contemporanea, Milan, 1953; Galerie L'Étoile scellée and Galerie Craven, Paris, 1953.

Messagier would soon be represented at group exhibitions in Germany, Zurich, Florence, Brussels, London and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

He would also participate in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Salon Comparaisons, Peinture informelle (alongside Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Mark Tobey, Wols) and the Salon d’Octobre of which he was one of the founding members.

Following his schooling at Large-Chênois in Montbeliard, Messagier moved to Paris.

At l'Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, his professors included Roland Oudot, Maurice Brianchon, Raymond Legueult and François Desnoyer.

In parallel he studied with the poet Paul Valéry at the Collège de France.

1943

In 1943, at the age of 23, Jean Messagier held his first solo exhibition at the Château de Montbéliard.

1944

In 1944 Jean Messagier married the ceramicist Marcelle Baumann (also studying at Les Arts Déco).

1945

From 1945 to 1949 the artist worked under the influence of Pablo Picasso, André Masson, Paul Klee and, his professor at École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris.

1947

Jean Messagier had his first solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Arc-en-Ciel in 1947.

In 1947 Messagier realized his first sculptures, exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris and held a solo exhibit at the Galerie Arc-en-Ciel in Paris.

1949

After brief stays in Italy and Algeria the two had their first child, Matthew (later to become a poet) in 1949.

1952

Messagier again was revealed to the public at an exhibition organized by Charles Estienne at the Galerie de Babylone in 1952, entitled "La Nouvelle École de Paris" (The New School of Paris).

The following year, Messagier deliberately broke away from his expressionistic form of Post-Cubism; his inspirations now focused on Jean Fautrier and Pierre Tal-Coat to develop a personal vision in which he renders "light...approached abstractly."

Jean Messagier is often associated with Lyrical abstraction, Tachisme, Nuagisme, Art informel and paysagisme abstrait, though the artist himself had never accepted any labels, and had always refused the distinction between abstraction and figuration.

Messagier then showed at the Galerie de Babylone in 1952 entitled "La Nouvelle École de Paris" (The New School of Paris), organized by Charles Etienne, the art critic who would become the spokesman for the new lyrical and expressionist movement.

Etienne recognized Messagier as a Robinson Crusoe of the Post-War movement.

Messagier co-founded the Salon d'Octobre in Paris and exhibited there in 1952 and 1953.

1953

Between 1953 and 1956 Messagier refined his pictorial vocabulary to include a kind of symmetry, closer in spirit to W. Blake than to the constructivists.

Defying the laws of gravity and seemingly outside of spacetime, his paintings of this period evoke a state of suspended animation, a dream-world as conceived by Mallarmé.

Allusive and dissolved forms that he painted so far gave way to vast indeterminate stretches of monochrome color, expressing Messagier's unswerving commitment to nature, air and light.

1954

In 1954 Marcelle gave birth to their second son, Thomas (who would become a taxidermist).

At this time the family resided in the heart of Paris, 8 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie.

1958

In 1958 their third son, Simon, was born.

By this time a new vocabulary had appeared in the press that described the new form of painting: art autre, art lyrique, tachiste, paysage abstrait, nouveau primitivisme, l'informel were the terms used.

The gesture of painting itself became the creative act.

Painting was no longer an activity oriented towards an aesthetic production.

L'informel became the dominant expression of the times, not solely amongst the critics, poets and artists, but also among scientists and philosophers, such as Merleau-Ponty and Bachelard, and psychiatrists oriented toward phenomenology who used post-Freudian theory to speak of "paysage intérieur", the internal landscape of the personality.

Painting (and drawing) for Messagier became the medium through which the universe spoke.

Natural forms were observed and replaced by paintings within which the forces of nature could be experienced.

1960

Over the years his gesture became further loosened, reaching its apogee during the 1960s with wide and elegant "gyrations".

These works resemble a network of loops or clouds (nuages) wrapping and mingling together tirelessly.

For Messagier, an artist had to be a social actor.

1962

From 1962 until the year of his death Jean Messagier exhibited in France and abroad, taking part in some major international events as a representative of new trends in French painting.

In 1962, to inaugurate his new studio—located in an old mill next to "les Trois cantons" at the foot of the Charrot bridge that spans the Doubs river—Messagier organized his first massive party.

Everyone from local government officials, artist friends from Paris (including Serge Poliakoff, the architect Jean-Louis Veret - a student Le Corbusier, Pierre Alechinsky), well-known gallery owners, dealers, collectors and construction workers (in brief, the entire population of village) were invited.

Jean Messagier renewed that spirit as much as he could.

In 1962, Jean Messagier represented France at the 31st Venice Biennale alongside Alfred Manessier, Serge Poliakoff, Andrew Marfaing and James Guitet (with Jean-Paul Riopelle representing Canada, Kumi Sugai Japan, Alberto Giacometti Switzerland, Jan Müller and Louise Nevelson the United States).