Henri Bernard Goetz (1909 – 1989) – Painting, oil on canvas

Description Henri Bernard Goetz (1909 – 1989) Painting, oil on canvas Dimensions: 64.0 X 53.0 cm. Biography of the artist: Henri Goetz was born in New York on September 29, 1902.  He began drawing in his childhood; however often was frustrated with his drawing and believed his mother should beat him for his failure as an artist. He is known for his artwork, as well as for inventing the carborundum printmaking process. His work is represented in more than 100 galleries worldwide. In 1927, Goetz when away to school in Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  At MIT he studied to be and electrical engineer; however he took evening arts classes and spent summers dedicated to painting.  He left MIT to enroll at Harvard University.  Here he attending art history classes with the thought of becoming an museum curator. In 1934, Goetz met Victor Bauer, an Austrian artist. Bauer taught Goetz of the existence of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Georges Rouault. Bauer also taught Goetz about left-wing politics, Sigmund Freud’s ideology, and avant-garde poetry and music. Through Bauer, he was able to show his first painting in a show in London. In January 1937, Goetz held his first exhibition at the Galerie Bonaparte with his wife. In 1945, after returning to Paris from several years working with the French Resistance forging documents, Goetz worked with René Guilly on a national radio program called The World of Paris. Ubac covered poetry, and Goetz covered painting. Goetz visited a new studio each week and, through this, met with artists such as Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brâncuși, Wassily Kandinsky, Julio González, Francis Picabia, and Max Ernst. He continued broadcasting for six months before giving his position to someone else. In 1947, Goetz became the subject of a short film by Alain Resnais for the Musée National d’Art Moderne entitled Portrait de Henri Goetz. Goetz showed the film to Gaston Diehl, leading Diehl to commission Resnais to create the film Van Gogh in the following year. Resnais went on to win an Academy Award in 1950 for the Best Short Subject, Two-reel film for Van Gogh. In 1949, Goetz began to teach a painting class. The class grew so large that he had to move it to the Académie Ranson. After five years of teaching there, he taught for another five years at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, eventually running two classes due to the number of pupils. He taught at many other schools before finally founding the Académie Goetz. He never charged money for his lessons. Of his students, Goetz said, “Some became excellent artists, and some became fashionable artists, but rarely the same ones became both.” In 1968 he accepted a teaching position at École des Beaux-Arts, but the school was closed due to student strikes two weeks later. He then moved to work at Paris 8 University, where he taught painting and etching classes. Henri Bernard Goetz (1909 – 1989) – Painting, oil on canvas – is a very beautiful painting. Code: C627