Music, The Orchestra, Playful Semi-abstract Drawing By Jean Edelmann

A poetic and playful miniature drawing by Jean EDELMANN (1916 - 2008) Born in Paris in 1916, Jean Edelmann  was of Alsatian origin. His father, a doctor, practiced drawing, his mother, a theater buff, was an excellent pianist. Very gifted in both drawing and mathematics, Jean Edelmann entered the general competition in these two subjects and won the drawing prize. In 1935 he entered the Ecole Polytechnique. The war arrived and he was taken prisoner in 1940. He spent five years in a camp in Austria, a dark period where he practiced drawing intensively. Upon his return from captivity in 1945, Jean Edelmann devoted himself to painting, engraving and book illustration.  Alongside painting, he expressed himself through different materials, notably stained glass and tapestry. From 1952, he exhibited his painting in Paris at the Galerie Cardo in Paris, then regularly at the Galerie Cinq-Mars, at the Galerie Messine, and from 1980 at the Galerie d'Art International. Jean Edelmann died in Paris in October 2008. A very special painter in the 20th century, Jean Edelmann has his own style.  Dimensions 9.5 x 9.5 cm at sight, framed 32.5 x 21 cm. Good oak frame.