WEISBUCH Claude

Claude Weisbuch

Violinist

Original lithograph. Signed in pencil. Numbered in pencil on 250.

Size : 76x57cm.

Claude WEISBUCH

Born from the union of a Lorraine mother and an engineer father of Romanian origin, Claude Weisbuch is a pupil of Camille Hilaire and André Vahl at the École nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy. He was then appointed professor of engraving at the School of Fine Arts in Saint-Etienne. After a confidential start, he became known in 1961, the year he received the Critics' Prize. In 1968, he became a full member of the Society of French painters-engravers. Claude Weisbuch died in April 2014 and rests in the Montparnasse cemetery.
His work is mainly devoted to engraving, by which he likes to translate, thanks to the line, the life, the movement and the character of his characters: pitchers, harlequins, musicians or equestrian scenes. For Patrick Waldberg, "man appears as an obsessive theme in Weisbuch's work, either that he strives to capture it in the mirror by contemplating his own image, or that he surprises him in the features of his visitors, or that he is trying to decipher it among the masters of the past that he worships, Jacques Callot, Rembrandt or Honoré Daumier ”. If he practices various techniques (lithography, drypoint, etc.) that he uses to illustrate bibliophile books, he is also a painter and designer. His preferred colors are ochres, browns and whites, with which he seeks to introduce the effects of light through compositions where the line and the delicacy of the drawing preserve the life found in his engravings. His precise and dynamic line delivers a work in movement and swirling on themes he likes: theater, opera, the equestrian environment, musicians, card players, kabuki dancers as well as many portraits. His works have the appearance of unfinished sketches, mixing few colors but with great liveliness of the line.