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Dubuffet, Jean

Genre

Painting, drawing, collages, sculpture, happenings. Development of „Art brut“.

  

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Born 1901 in Le Havre. Died 1985 in Paris.

 

until 1918

Studied at the Académie Julien in Paris

starting in

1942 

Dubuffet devoted his time to painting again

1948   

Foundation of the  "Compagnie de l´art brut"

since 1962

Development of the artistic language „Hourloupe“; figurative-abstract cellular writing

1971

Donated his Art Brut collection to the city of Lausanne

 

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2004

Budapest, Ludwig Museum, Jean Dubuffet

2003

Bilbao, Guggenheim, Jean Dubuffet

Salzburg, Rupertinum, Museum der Moderne, Jean Dubuffet

1998

Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve

1985

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Retrospective

1981

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Exhibition on the occasion of the 80th Birthday

1980

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Retrospectives

Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst

Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich Kunsthalle

1973

New York, Guggenheim Museum,  Retrospective

1964

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, L´Hourloupe

1957

Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich,  Retrospective

1954

Paris, Cercle Volney,  Retrospective

1947

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery

1944, 1945

Paris, Galerie René Drouin

 

Group exhibitions (selection)

2004

Emden, Kunsthalle, Expressive Bildwelten - Die Schenkungen Otto van de Loo

2003

Linz, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Paris 1945 bis 1965

Dusseldorf, Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Altenbourg, Ernst, Wols, Dubuffet

Graz, Neue Galerie, SUPPORT 1 - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung

Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Die Fondation Maeght

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Gogh Modern

Paris, FRAC, Les 20 ans des FRAC

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Expressiv!

   

Collections (selection)

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Fondation Beyeler, Basel

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk/Copenhagen

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas

Reina Sofía, Madrid

Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Tate Modern, London

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

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