Additional information
| Artist | Weisbuch |
|---|---|
| Country | French |
ArtistWeisbuch, Claude
Artist Years1927-2014
Artist NationalityFrench
TitleGoya
Yearca. 1970
MediumDrawing > Mixed Media
DimensionsComposition: 9.5 X 12 inches
Description
Graphite heightened with white chalk on wove paper, signed in pencil lower center.
Accession NumberRC1615
NotesClaude Weisbuch was a French painter, draughtsman and engraver.
Born to a Lorraine mother, Alice Weill, and a father of Romanian origin, Sigmund Weisbuch, first an engineer and then a wholesaler in watchmaking-jewellery, Claude Weisbuch was a student at the Émile Gebhart school and then at the Henri-Poincaré Lycée in Nancy before the Occupation and the exodus led the family to Roanne. Returning to Lorraine, he attended the classes of Camille Hilaire and André Vahl at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Nancy. He was then appointed professor of engraving at the School of Fine Arts of Saint-Étienne.
After a confidential debut, he became known in 1961, when he received the Critic Award. In 1968, he became a full member of the Société des painters-graveurs français.
His work is essentially devoted to engraving, by which he likes to translate, thanks to the line, the life, movement and character of his characters: polichinelles, arlequins, musicians or equestrian scenes. For Patrick Waldberg, "the man appears as an obsessive theme in Weisbuch's work, either that he tries to capture it in the mirror by contemplating his own image, or that he surprises him in the features of his visitors, or let him try to decipher him in the masters of the past that he veneres, Jacques Callot, Rembrand. If he practices various techniques (lithography, dry point, etc.) which he puts at the service of illustration of bibliophile books, he is also a painter and draughtsman. His privileged colors are ochres, browns and whites, with whom he seeks to introduce the effects of light through compositions where the line and fineness of the drawing retain the life found in his engravings.
His precise and dynamic feature delivers a work all in motion and swirling on themes he loves: theater, opera, equestrian background, musicians, card players, kabuki dancers and many portraits. His works have the appearance of unfinished sketches, mixing few colors but with a great vivacity of the line
Weisbuch died April 2014, he rests at the Montparnasse cemetery.
(source: wikipedia.org)