Jean-Michel Atlan (January 23, 1913 – February 12, 1960) was a French artist.

Biography

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descent, Atlan was born in

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, French Algeria, and moved to Paris in 1930. He studied

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at the

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. He started as a self-taught painter in 1941. He was arrested for being

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ish and for his political activism in 1942. He pleaded insanity and was confined to the Sainte Anne asylum. He published a slim volume of poetry in 1944 and had his first exhibition at the Gallerie Arc en Ciel. In 1946 he met

Asger Jorn Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest c ...

and got involved with the CoBrA art group. His studio became a meeting place for the group in Paris.Wolf Stubbe, ''Graphic arts in the twentieth century'', 1963, p.254-255 In 1955 he exhibited in the Gallerie Carpenter. Two of the works he is known for include ''Le Kahena'', and ''Composition''. He died in Paris and is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse.

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Biography, pictures at Galerie Birch famous for COBRA
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Altan, Jean-Michel People from Constantine, Algeria Modern painters 1913 births 1960 deaths University of Paris alumni Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters Abstract painters French watercolourists Migrants from French Algeria to France French abstract artists