We were delighted to present the first solo show by Gérard Schneider. The exhibition echoed the artist’s major retrospective at Musée d’Orléans in 2013 and drew from unreleased archives. Gérard Schneider (1896–1986), Swiss-born, studied at the École nationale des beaux-arts de Paris and the École nationale des arts décoratifs before moving to France.
He wrote poems and explored the new possibilities opened up by surrealism in the mid-1930s, all the while incorporating Kandinsky’s revolutionary abstraction into his work. Gérard Schneider’s painting was pivotal in the emergence of Lyrical Abstraction, a new and avant-garde art movement, during the post-war era. His gesture, highly influenced by music, convey his desire to translate pure emotion into painting.
