Jean leppien biography

Jean Leppien (born Kurt Leppien April 8, 1910 in Lüneburg – October 19, 1991 in Courbevoie at Paris) was a.
Jean Leppien was born in Germany (Lüneburg) in 1910.
Jean Leppien was a German-French painter.

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Jean Leppien

"This small blue spot, which the prisoner calls "sky", has haunted all my works."

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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.

When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do no

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Jean Leppien

German painter (1910–1991)

Jean Leppien (born Kurt Leppien April 8, 1910 in Lüneburg – October 19, 1991 in Courbevoie at Paris) was a German-French painter.

From 1929, Leppien studied at the Bauhaus Dessau with Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. He lived in France since 1933, from where he was deported in 1944. After the war he stayed in France as Jean Leppien, where he exhibited at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Leppien is one of the most important representatives of the Geometric abstraction in France. Stylistically, he is close to painters such as Alberto Magnelli, Jean Deyrolle, Michel Seuphor, Emile Gilioli and Aurélie Nemours.^[1]

Life

Kurt Leppien was born in Lüneburg in 1910 as the son of the horsehair cloth manufacturer Jean-Gottfried Leppien. His mother Gertrud Leppien, née Domnich, came from a Hamburg merchant family, her ancestors were manufacturers, merchants, pastors, lawyers and musicians. Leppien spent his youth in Lüneburg and developed an interest in art at an early age. Inspired and guided by painters fr

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Jean Leppien Biography

The painter, lithographer, illustrator Jean Leppien was born in Lunebourg, Germany, in 1910. He died in Paris in 1991. He was naturalized French in '53. The artist began drawing in '27. He was a student at the Bauhaus School (Dessau) in 1929, where Albers, Klee and Kandinsky were his professors. In Berlin (1931-32) he worked with Moholy-Nagy and learned photography at the Itten School. When Nazism came to power he fled Germany and settled in Paris (1933). He lives by his wits. In '39 Leppien, thirsty for freedom and attached to his adopted country, enlisted in the Foreign Legion. Demobilized, he lived in hiding for a certain period (Roquebrune on the French Riviera) then joined the Resistance. Arrested, deported, freed by the allies, he finds his wife in Paris, herself a survivor of Auschwitz. Painting had been abandoned, Leppien resumed it in '46. He exhibited at the first Salone delle Realtà Nuove and became a member of the committee. He will be attentive to the p