#Lyrical art series

Schneider died in 1986 in Paris.īetter known under his pseudonym Takis, Panagiotis Vassilakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1925. Today Schneider’s work can be found in the world’s most prestigious collections, including the Musée d’Art Moderne, Brussels, the MoMA, New York, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro and the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Québec, among many others and has been featured at Documenta twice. The French pavilion at the 1966 edition of the Venice Biennale featured a solo exhibition of these “free” works. In the 1960s, Schneider's work gained a wilder expressionist quality, utilizing brighter colors. A landmark retrospective exhibition was famously held in Brussels in 1953 at the Musée d’Art Moderne showcasing the progression of his style which became more liberated in the post-war period.

#Lyrical art series

This was followed by a series of institutional acquisitions at the MoMA and the Phillips Collection.

The later 1940s saw an abundance of expositions between Europe and the United States where he landed exclusive representation at Sam Koontz Gallery in New York. This takes center stage in Schneider’s works and would characterize his oeuvre as we know it today. Along with artists such as Hans Hartung and Pierre Soulages, the lyrical abstractionists took art to another dimension, their art being unwary, animated modes of communication. It was just at the cusp of the war that Schneider would enter a new phase of his career, venturing into what is now called Lyrical Abstraction. He was exposed to the likes of Picasso and Kandinsky who had famously departed from reality in their work.

During his time in Paris, Schneider frequented musical circles which informed his early works, featuring a movement-based expression. At 20 he relocated to Paris where he studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, and later at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the studio of the painter Fernand Cormon, teacher to van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. Gérard Schneider was born in Switzerland in 1896.