JEAN-MICHEL ATLAN
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1913 in Constantine, Algeria, Jean-Michel Atlan moved to Paris in 1930 to study philosophy at the Sorbonne. As a teacher at the Lycée Condorcet, he was stripped of his post by the Vichy regime because of his Jewish origins, and began painting in 1941.
After the Liberation, he exhibited at the Salon des Surindépendants and the Parisian Galerie L'Arc-en-Ciel.
From 1946, he moved increasingly towards abstraction, joining the CoBrA movement in 1948.
He died in 1960, and several retrospectives have been devoted to his work, notably at the Centre Pompidou in 1980 and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes in 1986.
2008
- Exhibition to mark the Atlan donation, National Museum of Modern Art - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Applicat-Prazan, Paris, France
- Atlan. Peintures, Galerie Jacques Elbaz, Paris, France
2002
- Atlan, peintures, grands formats, Galerie Jacques Elbaz, Paris, France
1989
- Atlan, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
1988
- Galerie Bernard Cats, Brussels, Belgium
1987
- Atlan, les lithographies des années 1945 à 1959, Galerie la Hune, Paris, France
1986
- Atlan. Premières périodes. 1940-1954, Nantes Fine Arts Museum, Nantes, France
1981
- Paris-Paris. Création en France. 1937-1957, National Museum of Modern Art - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1980
- Atlan. Œuvres des collections publiques françaises, National Museum of Modern Art - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1964
- Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israël
1963
- Jean-Michel Atlan, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
1956
- Poster of the exhibition École de Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France
- Galerie Bing, Paris, France
1955
- Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France
1944
- Surindépendants exhibition, Paris, France