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Original etching by Edouard Goerg, signed by the artist. 50 x 39 cm, in fine condition. Edouard Joseph Goerg was born in 1893 to Gustave Goerg and Blanche Adet in Australia, where his family had established a Champagne wine trading house. In 1894 the family moved to London. Goerg's parents expected their son to take over the trading house, but Goerg decided to become a painter and broke with the family. He became a student of Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson , where he studied in 1913 14. There he met the painter Georges Préveraud de Sonneville (1889 1978), with whom he soon became lifelong friends, and Antoine Bourdelle . In 1913 and 1914 he traveled to Italy and India. Goerg then served as a soldier in World War I until 1919. He was sent to the Eastern Front, then to Greece, Turkey and Serbia. The following 20 years of his work were shaped by these dramatic experiences. . In 1919 he returned to the Académie Ranson. There he met Andrée Berolzheimer, whom he married the following year. The couple bought a house in Cély-en-Bière and settled there. André Sauvage also shot the documentary Édouard Goerg à Cély there in 1928 . The conflict with his father, which lasted until his death in 1929, prompted Goerg to write works that were directed against the hypocritical morality of bourgeois society. From 1920 Goerg was one of the central figures of French Expressionism. His work was defined by radiant colors, peculiar pictorial compositions and social themes. A whole period of his work was devoted to surrealism from 1934, after he had met Emmanuel Mounier and the Esprit group of artists. During this time he worked mainly with lithographs. As an illustrator, he illustrated several books. Between the two world wars, Goerg became increasingly well-known and had his first major solo exhibitions. He took an active part in the activities of theAssociation des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires . With the outbreak of World War II, his themes changed. He mainly painted women and flowers, often in combination. During the German occupation of France, Goerg refused to take part in a trip initiated by Arno Breker for the French artists, during which the artists were also supposed to meet Hitler. His wife Andrée Berolzheimer was Jewish and had to go into hiding with their daughter Claude-Lise. Her death in 1944 plunged Goerg into a deep depression. He was repeatedly treated with electric shocks. In 1947 he remarried. Along with André Fougeron and Édouard Pignon, he was one of the leaders of the Front national des arts . He participated in the illustrated book Vaincre , which was published in June 1944 and whose proceeds were intended to benefit the resistance organization of the French Résistance Francs-tireurs et partisans . In the 1950s, he taught etching at the École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière . Goerg was President of the Société des peintres-graveurs français from 1945 to 1958 and was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1965 . Goerg died in 1969 and was buried in the park of his castle in Callian. N° de ref. del artículo 23653
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