Colette Brunschwig (b. 1927, Le Havre, FR; d. 2025)
A survivor of the holocaust, Colette Brunschwig moved to Paris in 1945 to study painting at the Academie Julian. Not long after, she left the Academie to study under the painter Jean Souverbie, and later under André Lhote. Brunschwig counted among friends contemporaries like Yves Klein, Paul Celan, and Jean Bollack. She was deeply inspired by Claude Monet—whom she credited with ushering in the “slow meltdown of the form”—as well as by the Talmudic tradition and Chinese literati painters. In 1949, Brunschwig had her first exhibition Marcelle Berr de Turique gallery. She went on to exhibit her work for more than sixty years, including at the Colette Allendy gallery, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Galerie Nane Stern, Musée Rimbaud, Galerie Clivage, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, among many others. In 2018, she had a solo show at OSMOS Address.
Untitled, 1950-1960,
India ink and acrylic on hardboard
33 x 41 cm
A la roue, 1976
Oil on canvas
135 x 198.5 cm
Untitled, 1952
India ink, casa alba and acrylic on paper
33.5 x 34.5 cm
Installation view at OSMOS Address
Selected Exhibitions
Collette Brunschwig: La Roue Revisited
December 13, 2017 – February 9, 2018