Léon LEHMANN was a French painter and draughtsman, born in Altkirch (Haut-Rhin) in 1873 and died there in 1953.
From 1993 to 1897, he attended Gustave Moreau's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he worked with Matisse, Marquet and Rouault, becoming a close friend. He was awarded the school's second prize in 1894.
He was initially influenced by post-impressionist avant-gardes, fauvism and Cézanne'sbut, from the 1920s onwards, moved towards a peinture more intimistwith his sometimes muted tones and rare light, he is in part akin to Edward Vuillard. After the Second World War, his painting became increasingly luminous, with lines becoming more dislocated, in search of true rhythms and harmonies that led him to the limits of abstraction, without ever giving in to it.
He was exhibited by Berthe Weill, Eugène Druet, Eugène Blot, Bernheim-Jeune, Katia Granoff and Beyeler.
He is present in some twenty museums in France and abroad.
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