Jean Lurcat was born in Bruyeres, France on July 1, 1892. His brother, Andre Lurcat became an architect. He studied at the Faculy of Science in Nancy and was planning to become a doctor but decided against it and eventually studied under Jean Prouve the head of the Ecole de Nancy. He was interested in engraving and in 1912 went to Paris to live with his brother, enrolling at the Academie Clorossi and studied under Bernard Naudin. He met all the important painters of the era including Matisse, Cezanne and Renoir, becoming friends with Antoine Bourdelle (designer of one of the posters of the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industrielles Modernes which gave its name to Art Deco).
He apprenticed to artist Jean Paul Laiftte. In September of 1916 his art had its first exhibition in Zurich, Switzerland.
From 1917 to 1921 he worked with the creation of his fabulous tapestries and lived with Marthe Hennebert who wove all of his tapestries. They exhibited in 1921 and discovered Picasso and Mark Jacob. He traveled extensively adding to his body of knowledge and creating more and more tapestries. His sixth tapestry (Les Arbres) was created in 1924. On December 15th he married Martha. He exhibited extensively and in 1928 traveled to the United States with his wife for his first exhibition in New York. In 1932 (by then he had divorced Marthe and married Rosanne Thimonief), he exhibited with Picasso, Braque, Derain and Raoul Dufy.
He created sets and decorations for a ballet (Le Jardin Publique) by George Balanchine in New York. He continued working with Balanchine until 1936. He developed new weaving processes at Aubusson and worked with the Gobelins tapestries....his most famous was "The Apocalypse" which was inspired by a 14th Century tapestry.. He died in 1966.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lur%C3%A7at
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