Olivier Debré

Olivier Debré , born the April 14th 1920 with Paris and deceased the June 2nd 1999 in Paris, was a French painter and member of the Institute.

Abstracted and firmly built in the Years 1940 - 1950, its Peinture evolved starting from the Années 1960 to a spatiality which returns to the freedom and the impermanency of nature. Its intervention on pictorial space exalte the color, he is a large colourist.

After studies of architecture in Paris (in the workshop of Charles Lemaresquier) and of history, it becomes, in 1939, the pupil of Le Corbusier.

With the Release, it meets painters avant-gardists such as Serge Poliakoff, of Stael, Soulages.

In the years 1950-55, one finds large the " signs characters " in the drawings with ink. About 1960, its work takes certainly a turning following its meeting in the United States with the Masters of the abstract expressionnism (Kline, Rothko, Olitski). Debré sometimes painted very large fabrics (while making slip a kind of brush-brush on the fabric on the ground). It also drew a postage stamp, stained glasses, painted several curtains of scene, for the Comédie-Française, the Opéra of Hongkong and new the Opéra of Shanghai in China, as well as the mural frescos of the Théâtre of the Abbesses in Paris.

It represents France with the World Fair of Montreal in 1967.

From 1980 to 1985, he teaches at the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools of Paris.

He was also sculptor and illustrator, inter alia books of Michel Déon, Francis Ponge and Julien Gracq. He published some artistic tests, in particular to give his vision of the evolution of the forms and proposed a new architecture adapted to the contemporary city.

Olivier Debré was the brother of Michel Debré, to see the article on the Famille Debré.

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