Jean Dubuffet

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. With his primative and childlike style, Dubuffet rejected traditional aesthetics to explore what he believed a more direct and authentic approach to artmaking.

Dubuffet studied in the Academie, but after six months he left to study independently. He admired the work of children and the mentally ill, and collected and promoted art by mental patients, prisoners, and children outside aesthetic norms.

His collection of ART BRUT is in the museum Art Brut in Lausanne Switzerland. In 1962, the Museum of Modern Art in New York had first retrospective of his work.

Selected Exhibitions

2008

Post-War Dutch, Paol & Co. Fine Art, Maastricht

2007

Die Aufregende Kunst des 20, Jahrhundderts, Neue Nationalgerlie, Berlin

2006

Classics, Sara Hilden Museum, Tampere, Finland

2005

Accrochage, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York City, NY

2004

Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2002

20 Years, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (group)

2000

Face the Face, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (group)

1991

Lithografien Aus 1991, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (solo)

1987

Lithografien 1950-1960, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (solo)

1984

Venice Biennale, French Pavillon, Venice, Italy

1983

Collagen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (solo)

1966–1967

Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY

1966

Retrospective, Tate Gallery London, England

Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Holland

1964

Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

1962

Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY

Retrospective, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1960–1961

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

1957

Retrospective, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

1954

Retrospective, Cercle Volney, France

1947

Pierre Matisse Gallery. New York, NY

1944

René Drouin Gallery, Paris, France (First Solo Exhibition)