The Cultureinside Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of deceased Luxembourg artist Jacques Nestlé entitled "Jacques Nestlé, Abstraction des années 50” (“Jacques Nestlé – Abstract Art in the 1950s”), the opening night of which will be held at 18:30 on Thursday 17 March 2016.
Jacques Nestlé was born in Saarbrucken, close to the German-Luxembourg border, in 1907. His move to Berlin in 1925 led to him being influenced by the Bauhaus movement and the avant-garde artists, such as Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Not ten years later he moved to Paris where the Modern Art revolution had already been in progress for a few decades.
It was in Paris that his work got noticed by Henri Matisse and received a proposal to be promoted by the art collector and dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Although Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler also publicised the works of noted artists such as Picasso, Braque and Gris, his offer was declined.
Jacques Nestlé worked predominantly with black, mixing other colours into the black so that the images almost shimmer. His abstract work is said to be a reflection of his inner emotions.
Jacques Nestlé died in 1991 and is remembered to have described himself as "not a painter, not an artist, but simply a man who paints".
The gallery (8 Rue Notre-Dame, 2240 Luxembourg,) will be hosting the exhibition from Thursday 17 March to Saturday 7 May 2016 and invites all to rediscover the post-war painter.
For more information go to: http://www.cultureinside.com/en/art-gallery-luxembourg.aspx
Photo by Cultureinside Gallery (painting by Jacques Nestlé)
