Gérard Fromanger

Born in 1939, Gérard Fromanger is a French painter, photographer and visual artist.

Not adhering to the traditional image of beauty and other conventional concepts, Gérard Fromanger quickly left the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and preferred to follow Robert Lesbounit's evening classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

He was noticed by César who lent him his workshop and followed him for two years. This relationship allowed Gérard Fromanger to meet other artists such as Jacques Prévert and the Giacometti brothers. He joined the Narrative Figuration movement and participated in the creation of New History. In the 1960s, he became an essential figure on the art scene.

Founder of the Atelier des Beaux-Arts in May 1968 and director of film tracts in collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard, Gérard Fromanger diversified and became involved with the world of cinema. Then he turns to photography in order to transcribe reality from his point of view through images.

The links he creates with different artists, writers, philosophers and musicians are for him a great source of inspiration, without which his work would not have evolved.

Gérard Fromanger continues to find himself at the forefront, among others in 2015 with his stained glass project for the Romanesque church of Anzy-le-Duc, which divided opinion.

The Center Georges Pompidou, Paris dedicated the Gérard Fromanger exhibition to him in 2016, curated by Michel Gauthier. In 2018, Laurent Greilsamer published the book Fromanger - Of all the colors, Entretiens. The same year, the artist inaugurated the Center Pompidou cycle “Un jour, une oeuvre" with the presentation of his work In China, at Hu-Xian in Villeneuve la Garenne. Gérard Fromanger died on June 18, 2021 in Paris.