Gérard Ernest Schneider, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gérard Ernest Schneider

Swiss artist (1896-1986)

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1896

Place of Birth: Sainte-Croix, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Date of Death: 08-Jul-1986

Profession: painter

Nationality: Switzerland, France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Gérard Ernest Schneider (1896–1986) was a Swiss painter. A major pioneer of Lyrical Abstraction, a gestural and personal form of abstraction, along with Hans Hartung and Pierre Soulages, Gérard Schneider was shown in Paris at the Galerie Louis Carré as early as 1950. From 1955 to 1960, Schneider’s work was exhibited at the Kootz Gallery in New York where an exclusivity contract connected the artist and the American dealer Samuel Kootz. From gesture, “the shape is born, whether lyrical or dramatic, with its colour and technical means, without any reference to external nature” according to Schneider. Eugène Ionesco spoke of “the original, eruptive, richness” of his work. From nervous gesture and volcanic composition, full of tension, of the 1950s followed “the light years” from Michel Ragon’s expression, which were marked by the balance of forms reflecting each other and the explosion of colour.
"Painting should be looked in the same way as music is listened to", as Schneider enjoyed saying. Musical, his work is to be understood like “an orchestra” which expresses “passion, fury, romanticism“ according to Michel Ragon.



Description	Italian photographer In 2008 his works have been bought by BEIC - Biblioteca Europea d'Informazione e Cultura (European Library for Information and Culture) of Milan. The whole amount of Paolo Monti's works consists of more than 220,000 photographic negatives, 12,000+ prints and 790 chemigrams that describe the story, society and culture of Italy from 1943 to 1982.
Date of birth/death	11 August 1908	29 November 1982
Location of birth/death	Novara	Milan
Authority control	: Q18169099 VIAF: 69014350 ISNI: 0000 0001 1827 5967 ULAN: 500034693 LCCN: n80066866 GND: 119177501 WorldCat