Printing on thin cardboard

Image size : 50 cm x 37,5 cm
sheet size : 65 cm x 50 cm

publishing print : 60 ex

Year 1981

Signed lower right : Camille Hirtz.

Numbered lower left 37/60 Antagonism

Antagonism

Hirtz Camille (13/04/1917 Strasbourg – 14/06/1987 Strasbourg)

Born in Cronenbourg a father who owned a small business painting and decorating.
After high school before turning to technical studies on the advice of his father.

L & rsquo; s School of Decorative Arts

He is enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg 1935 at 1938 and attended courses and workshops Kamm, Cammissar, Schneider and Solveen. He then moved to Paris and joined the School of Fine Arts and in the studio Sabbaté. During his studies and until 1939, undergoes the influence of Impressionism then, says J.P.. Schneider, more particularly Gauguin and certain symbolist tendencies.

It begins with a figurative painting, quite close to Fauvism and colorful. He himself specifies in 1964 : " I went, when I started (1938), solid figurative knowledge. However, in my painting, the architectural and colorful structure has always been more important than the figuration ”.

In 1946, he joined the Group Issue and became a professor at the School of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg, where he teaches decorative compositions figurative and non-objective. At that time, it is strongly marked by war and the Russian camp where he was sent. His oils testify "to a very dark expressionism bordering on the tragic" (Joseph Paul Schneider, 1980).

But Camille Hirtz remains a fine colorist, mastering the Color theory, in his words.

After his return from captivity

D & rsquo; s first teacher & rsquo; Ecole Commerciale Strasbourg, he was quickly appointed professor at & rsquo; Decorative Arts School where he would deliver a high quality education in various disciplines.

From 1947-1948, the painter says he grows increasingly towards simplification, with an abandonment of perspective. He practices an increasingly strongly structured figurative painting with a multiplication of geometric elements., before slipping into lyrical abstraction, where the color-light then plays an essential role.

He increasingly feels the need to simplify the real world, representation of human beings, objects and things and leads to the creation of a supernatural universe in lyrical and poetic compositions where volumes and colors play.

Charged, at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, especially the paint shop in 1968, he was called to the position of coordinator of the Arts Department until his retirement in June 1981.

He exhibited regularly at the House in Strasbourg Alsace Street Brulée, from 1949, then at the Art House Alsatian, Old Customs from 1972.
Citation : "For if Hirtz is an artist, he is also a lover of artisan thousand secrets of the art, inventor of theories on color, materials, new mixes ... "Camille Claus, Latest News of Alsace, 4 November 1957.

Sources : Painters and Alsace around Impressionism -Edition Book of the Renaissance 2003 - Helen and Victor Beyer Brauener.

Another work by the artist proposed by the Gallery.

http://www.aida-galerie.com/dossiers-presse/25-05-17-camille-hirtz.pdf