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Bernard Gantner (1928-2018)Born on August 16, 1928 in Belfort, died on June 1, 2018. Painter of landscapes, snow, still lifes, gouache painter, watercolourist, engraver, illustrator. Bernard Gantner is an accomplished artist of international renown. Very young, he shows an interest in the arts. Encouraged by the curator of the Museum of Belfort, he decides at ten years to dedicate his life to painting.
In 1961 he obtains the "Critics' Prize" awarded by his friend, the famous writer and critic Claude Roger-Marx. Bernard Gantner then engages the beginning of an international career. " Fifty solo exhibitions in Japan, sixty in the United States, about ten in Canada, exhibitions in England and in all the major cities of France. Retrospectives at the Château de Val, Abbey of Baume-les-Dames, Florival Museum in Guebwiller, Mulhouse, Strasbourg, Vittel, Chicago, Basel, Tokyo. Numerous purchases by museums in France and abroad. "
In 1998 he obtains the Legion of Honor. He opens the Espace Gantner in Bourogne and makes a donation of his lithographic work: more than 550 lithographs as well as etchings; he has illustrated in other works the tales of Maupassant, the poems of E.Verhaeren and edited a dozen books of bibliophilia often with the collaboration of Claude Roger-Marx.
After having lived on the shores of Lake Geneva, Bernard Gantner returned to his native region where he devoted his time to his art, his museum as well as to the embellishment of the surrounding gardens that he transformed and designed himself. He finds his inspiration in the landscapes that surround him, constantly hunting for snow, water and vegetation in all their forms in all seasons, preferring old snowy farms against a background of fir trees from the Vosges and Haute-Savoie. |
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