Collette Brunschwig (b. 1927; Le Havre, France)
Born 1927 in Le Havre, France, Colette Brunschwig belongs to a generation of french female painters, active in the Parisian art scene since World War II, she was friends with artists and poets such as Yves Klein and Paul Celan. As Pierette Bloch, she studied with André Lhote in the late 40’s, who opened her eyes to the issues of abstraction.
At the time, the young woman was fascinated by the work of Claude Monet (1840-1926), to whom she later devoted an essay celebrating the “slow meltdown of the form,” which reached its paroxysm with the Nymphéas. His painting, in which “the top and the bottom, the right and the left are oriented, meet and get lost,” inspired C. Brunschwig to create works that were devoid of horizons but not of depth, pure abysses of darkness and light. Different generations of Parisian galleries have accompanied her work: in the 1970s, the galleries Nane Stern and La Roue; in the 1980s and 1990s, Bernard Bouche, Clivages and Jaquester; in the 2000s and 2010s, Convergences and Jocelyn Wolff. In 2020, she took part in the group exhibition Femmes années 50. Au fil de l’abstraction, peinture et sculpture at the Soulages Museum in Rodez.
Colette Brunschwig
Untitled, 1950-1960,
India ink and acrylic on hardboard
33 x 41 cm
Colette Brunschwig
A la roue, 1976
oil on canvas
135 x 198.5 cm
Colette Brunschwig
Untitled, 1952
India ink, casa alba and acrylic on paper
33.5 x 34.5 cm
