Overview
Known for his expressive, gestural paintings, Gérard Schneider was a Swiss artist based in Paris essential to the development of Lyrical Abstraction.
Biography

 

Gérard Schneider was born in Switzerland in 1896. At 20 he relocated to Paris where he studied at the École nationale des Arts Décoratifs, and later at the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the studio of painter Fernand Cormon, teacher to pupils including van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. During his time in Paris, Schneider frequented musical circles which informed his early works, featuring a movement-based expression. He was exposed to the likes of Picasso and Kandinsky who had famously departed from reality in their work. It was just at the cusp of the war that Schneider would enter a...

Works
  • Gérard Schneider, Untitled, 1985
    Gérard Schneider
    Untitled, 1985
    Acrylic on paper laid on canvas
    150 x 100 cm
    59 x 39 3/8 in
    Framed: 156 x 113 x 3.5 cm
  • Gérard Schneider, Opus 56N, 1981
    Gérard Schneider
    Opus 56N, 1981
    oil on canvas
    86 x 116 cm
    33 7/8 x 45 5/8 in
    Framed : 97 x 124 x 5,5 cm
  • Gérard Schneider, Opus 62M, 1978
    Gérard Schneider
    Opus 62M, 1978
    oil on canvas
    35 x 27.5 cm
    13 3/4 x 10 7/8 in
  • Gérard Schneider, Opus 55M, 1978
    Gérard Schneider
    Opus 55M, 1978
    acrylic on canvas
    50 x 61 cm
    19 3/4 x 24 in
  • Gérard Schneider, Composition, 1975
    Gérard Schneider
    Composition, 1975
    oil on canvas
    114 x 146 cm
    44 7/8 x 57 1/2 in
    framed: 120 x 151 x 4 cm
  • Gérard Schneider, Untitled, 1970
    Gérard Schneider
    Untitled, 1970
    acrylic on canvas
    37 x 41 cm
    14 5/8 x 16 1/8 in
    Framed : 56 x 62 x 3,5 cm
  • Gérard Schneider, Untitled, 1970
    Gérard Schneider
    Untitled, 1970
    oil on canvas
    33 x 41 cm
    13 x 16 1/8 in
    Framed : 48 x 56 x 4,5cm
  • Gérard Schneider, Opus 3H, 1965
    Gérard Schneider
    Opus 3H, 1965
    oil on canvas
    50 x 61 cm
    19 3/4 x 24 in
    Framing dimensions: 83.5 x 99.5 x 5.5 cm
  • Gérard Schneider, Opus 69C, 1956
    Gérard Schneider
    Opus 69C, 1956
    oil on canvas
    100 x 81 cm
    39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in
    framed: 103 x 83 x 4 cm
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