Painting, Graphics · 1904–1984 · 1 work in the collection
- deutsch-französisch
- Öl
Edgar Jené, whose real name was Erhard Jené, was born in Saarbrücken-Malstatt in 1904 and died in La Chapelle-Saint-André in Burgundy in 1984. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich from 1922 to 1924, and then in Paris at the École nationale des beaux-arts, the Académie Julian, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1935, he emigrated to Vienna, where in 1948, together with Paul Celan and Arnulf Neuwirth, he organized the city's first Surrealism exhibition. From 1950 to 1965, he lived in Paris in close contact with the Surrealist circle around the Galerie Furstenberg, and thereafter until his death in Burgundy.
In the collection: "Venice from the other side."
Technique: Oil on canvas.
