Nessler, A lifetime at Centre d’Art Sébastien

From 26 February to 02 April 2023

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Nessler, a whole life

From 26 February to 02 April

Janine NESSLER was born in August 1925.
Attracted to painting from an early age, she met in 1935, at the age of 10, Luce Paris Hilsum, a former student of Emile Bernard.
In 1945, after the liberation, she joined the School of Fine Arts in the Narbonne studio. She shared her passion with another student, Bernard Buffet, who joined the studio in 1946.

She attended all the major Parisian studios: La Grande Chaumière, Julian, André Lhote, Fernand Léger…; participated in the Salon National des Beaux-Arts, Salon des Indépendants, Salon des Artistes Français, Salon des Femmes Peintres, Salon d’Automne – of which she was a member -, Salon Populiste, Salon Comparaisons…; exhibited in numerous galleries in Paris, Lisbon, New York…

To exhibit Nessler is to offer the public the opportunity to see the evolution of a painter through a lifetime of production.
From the 1940’s to 2017, Janine Nessler paints tirelessly, she does not claim to belong to any specific movement, but encompasses them all to make a very personal and unclassifiable genre.

She never stops painting and as she paints, she also engraves, oak and walnut slabs, woods that are sometimes difficult to work with and whose rendering is perplexing; Janine Nessler also draws hundreds of drawings at each period, whose evolution according to fashions, inspiration and time can be discovered, as for painting.