HENRI GOETZ
BIOGRAPHY
Henri Goetz was a Franco-American surrealist artist who was born in New York in 1909 and died in Nice in 1989.
In the early 1930s, he studied at M.I.T, Harvard, Cambridge and the Grand Central Art School in New York. He then moved to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian and the Montparnasse studios. In 1935, he married the painter Christine Boumeester and met Hans Hartung, Fernand Léger and Vassily Kandinsky. It was during this period that he produced his first non-figurative paintings.
In 1938, he met André Breton and the Surrealists. Breton gave the title Corrected Masterpieces to a series produced between 1938 and 1939.
During the Second World War, he joined the Resistance and went underground because of his American nationality, and with Christian Dotremont and Raoul Ubac founded the first Surrealist magazine under the Occupation: La Main à la Plume.
After the war, he began research into the pastel technique and invented a Carborundum engraving technique.
In 1965, he founded his own academy on the premises of André Lhote's former academy.
In 1983, the Musée Goetz-Boumeester was created in Villefranche-sur-Mer.
2009
- Années 1935-1960, Galerie Hélène Trintignan, Montpellier, France
- Années 1960-1989, Galerie Hambursin-Boisanté, Montpellier, France
- Œuvre gravé d'Henri Goetz, 24, rue Alexandre-Cabanel, Montpellier, France
- Hommage à Henri Goetz, Galerie Rémy Bucciali, Colmar, France
2001
- Galerie Jean-François Aittouarès, Paris, France
1995
- Retrospective at the Strasbourg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Strasbourg, France
1991
- Henri Goetz. Rétrospective, galerie Hanin Nocera, Paris, France
1989
- Henri Goetz. Rétrospective, galerie Artuel, Paris, France
1988
- Henri Goetz, Studio Rita Gallé, Milan, Italie
- Henri Goetz. Rétrospective, galerie Michel Reymondin, Genève, Suisse
- Henri Goetz. Rétrospective, galerie du Cobra, Paris, 1988.
1987
- Henri Goetz. Rétrospective, Centre de l'Alliance française, Edimbourg, Ecosse
- Henri Goetz. One man show, Crawshaw Gallery, Londres, Angleterre
1947
- Short film by Alain Resnais Portrait of Henri Goetz for the Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
1937
- First personal exhibition (with Catherine Boumeester), Galerie Bonaparte (Van Leer), Paris, France
1936
- Salon des surindépendants, Paris, France