Jean Crotti

Jean Crotti , born the April 24th 1878 with Bubble, in Swiss, and dead the January 30th 1958 with Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a Swiss painter.

Crotti, after studies at the School of decorative arts of Munich, in Germany, settles with Paris at the 23 years age to integrate prestigious the Académie Julian. It is influenced in turn by the Impressionnisme, then by the Fauvisme and the Art nouveau. In the neighborhoods of 1910, it starts to be interested in the orphism - a derivative of the Cubisme -, a style which will take importance in its work because of its collaboration with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia with New York.

It settles with the the United States to flee the First World War, dividing a workshop with Marcel Duchamp in New York. It is there that it becomes acquainted with his sister, Suzanne Duchamp, disciple of the movement Dada with which Crotti soon will mix. In 1916, it exposes paintings of style orphist, of which its Portrait of Marcel Duchamp and his very discussed Mechanical forces of the love, movement , created with objects of recovery.

With the autumn 1916, Crotti separates from his wife, Yvonne Chastel, and goes back to Paris. It had then already engaged a relation with Suzanne Duchamp, which it will marry after its divorce in 1919. Being itself artist, it influenced the work of Jean Crotti much. In 1920, it paints one of its most famous fabrics, a portrait of Thomas Edison. It takes part in the International exhibition of Paris in 1925, like with the International Exhibition off Modern Art with the Brooklyn Museum in 1926-1927. Then, and until its death in Paris in 1958, it will produce many tables which will be exposed in important galleries in England, in France, in Germany and in the United States.

External bond

Jean Crotti on the site of the International Hobby-horse Files

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