Daniel Gasser was born in 1948 at Mulhouse. After studying at the “Arts Décoratifs” de Strasbourg, he pursued various professions (illustrator-teacher-designer) before eventually living exclusively from his art.

The style of the paintings of Daniel Gasser certainly slot into the expressionist movement whilst tending towards fusion. His bold brush-strokes and the relationship between his colours develop an expressive intensity with spontaneity and an atmosphere which hovers between dream and reality.

Daniel Gasser lives and works in Kilstett, a village near Strasbourg

The painting of Maurice Jully is that of colour, of brilliance and of feelings. They quite simply bring happiness.

After studying at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, Maurice Jully threw himself into his painting. His influences were Matisse, Paul Klee and Chinese painting.

In 1986 came a break. Diagnosed with MS he is confined to a wheel-chair. Far from turning in on himself, he continues to paint. The landscapes seen through his window become his inspiration: the Cathedral in Strasbourg, the roofs and facades of the buildings are all painted in all lights.

In September 2005 the Museum of Modern Art from Strasbourg held a full retrospective of his work. He died a few months later.

To read more on his work read « Maurice Jully » Edition CEAAC – September 2005

Awarded the Prix du Conseil Regional d’Alsace in 1992, the work of Jean Remlinger crosses many of the influences of the 20th Century including that of “Narrative Figuration”.

Since the early 1970s his paintings were mainly figurative with the human body central to the œuvre; the body rarely portrayed whole but often fragmented or in pieces. These canvases represent people whose faces are vacant as if the traits had been wiped out. No explanation is given. The figure is merely a pretext for the pictoral experience.

Jean Remlinger lives and works in Strasbourg
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Site Web : www.jean-remlinger.com

Born in Strasbourg in 1938, Francois Bruetschy won the Prix du Conseil General du Haut Rhin in 1991. His abstract landscapesreveal influences from the informal art of COBRA and the spontaneity of the American expressionists. Little affected by the “pouring” style of Pollock, Francois Bruetschy was more interested by the colourful abstracts of De Kooning and the abstract expressionism of Motherwell: he borrowed from these two artists his expansive style. But Francois Bruetschy seems closer still to Henri Michaux. Like the author of Emergences Resurgences he tries to render “place without place, matter without materialism, space without frontiers” and to represent “an object which becomes weightless, ceases to be impenetrable, stops being objective: intact yet ruined”.
He lives and works in Strasbourg.

H.J.Pietrula, a German national, was born in Duigsbourg on 28th October 1938. Passionate about art from an early age, he won his first prize for drawing at the tender age of 15. Marked first by Naturalism, today his techniques are more diverse. Drawing people, animals, flowers and land-scapes, his rich and highly coloured palette verges on the minimal. His themes evoke the microcosm, the world of the past and the future, the unseen.
Today he lives and works in Algolsheim, a little village situated next to Neuf Brisach.

Michel Wohlfahrt, of Alsatian origin, creates pieces of art with vigorous and powerful movements. In an atmosphere of intense intimacy, which is both gentle and passionate, a natural bond is formed with the clay. He moulds and pummels it and eventually little by little, the block of clay begins to take form and appears as a thin figure reaching towards the sky. Long and fragile yet solemn and funny, the figures look as if they had been pulled by force from the ground. Wohlfahrt’s creations are very moving because of their real-life characteristics. There they are, shooting up from the ground towards the sky at times standing tall and proud braving the sun and at other times bending over in a swirling movement as if they have been swept away by a gust of wind...

Michel Wohlfahrt lives and works in Saint Quentin La Poterie a small village situated near UZES.
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Site : www.michel-wohlfart.com

Jean-Paul Turmel is a sculptor first and a painter second. This series of drawings is taken from his sketch book where notes, drawings, and sketches mingle and mix. The artist plays with angles and perspective as others play with words. “ These a bits of sculpture, whether finished or not, are the first step in my work”.

In these four drawings vertical lines cross coloured rectangles with a controlled energy. Shadows indicate the perspective, assured but never cold, softened by earthy pigments and free bruch-strokes. Turmel is a builder, a constructor. He himself admits “assemble, add, as with a building toy”.

Jean Paul Turmel lives today at Beaugency in the Loiret.

Painter and photographer Klaus Stöber was born in 1958 in Hanover (Germany). Graduate of CEACC* in 2003, his paintings seem to assemble and superimpose colours in chromatic joy.

There you find the spontaneity and freedom such as that found in the great works of the American Expressionists: the palette is wide, the canvases have a great intensity of expression.

Klaus Stöber’s work is one of excess and overflow and yet in the end the bold lines and shapes combine to form recognisable objects. The ordering of his forms and colours, his constant innovation show the maturity of a great painter. He lives and works in Strasbourg.

Born in Tokyo in 1969, Mitsuo Shiraishi came to France in 1988 and settled in Mulhouse where he finished his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.

His style, inspired by the Flemish Primitives with surrealist overtones, results in very detailed representations often out of context: a cabin in the middle of the desert, a fortress becomes a town built of sky-scrapers... an impression of unreality and yet of poetry is born out of such juxtaposition. However in all these places whilst man is absent, everything speaks of his presence: a ball, a telephone box, a chip van... This world of man fights against Nature symbolised ny great landscapes, a tree, grass. His view is that of an artist who has the power to imagine such worlds and show them otherwise with great virtuosity and inner poetic sense.

Mitsuo Shiraishi lives in Mulhouse and works at the Gallery Bucciali in Colmar.
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