Albert Flocon

Albert Flocon , of his true name Albert Mentzel , born with Köpenich, suburb of the south-east of Berlin, the May 24th 1909 and died in Paris in October 1994, is a French engraver of German origin, also theorist and historian of engraving.

Albert Flocon initially studies with the Bauhaus with Dessau under the direction the architect Josef Albers. He devotes himself then to the performing arts (dance, theater) with Oskar Schlemmer until in 1930. Fleeing the Nazism and the attacks against the degenerated Art, it emigrates in France and settles definitively in Paris in 1945. With the engraver Johnny Friedlaender, him also taken refuge of German origin, it founds in 1949 a workshop of engraving, the Workshop of the Hermitage.

He was the friend of the philosopher Gaston Bachelard. Impassioned by the relationship between art and the geometry, its works as much as its writings strongly contributed to renew the study of the perspective and particularly of the curvilinear Perspective.

Works

Break points , volume I, Ides and Calendes, Neuchâtel, 1929-1933; 1994
Praise of the hand , 1949
Treated graver , ED. Blaizot, Paris, 1952 (foreword of Gaston Bachelard)
Castles in Spain , 1957
Universe of the books , ED. Hermann, Paris, 1961
the Prospect , PUF, coll do I That-Know? , 1963 (in collaboration with Rene Taton)
the curvilinear Prospect , 1968 (in collaboration with Andre Barre)
the Image in question, ED. Estienne, 1968
experimental Continuations , Medusa, 1983
Scenographies with the Bauhaus , Séguier, 1987

References

C. Ballestero, Albert Flocon in his books , Ides and Calendes, coll Artificial parchment, Neuchâtel
J. - Cl. Margolin, Bachelard , Threshold, coll Writers of always n° 94. Contains several reproductions of boards engraved by Albert Flocon.

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