Bernard Gantner (1928-2018)

Bernard Gantner (1928-2018) Frost, 1976 watercolor 27.5x19cm 51x42cm framed Provenance: Findlay Galleries Bernard Gantner (1928-2018) Born August 16, 1928 in Belfort, died June 1, 2018. Painter of landscapes, snow, still lifes, gouache painter, watercolourist, engraver, illustrator. Bernard Gantner is an accomplished artist of international renown. In 1961 he won the "Prix de la Critique" awarded by his friend the famous writer and critic Claude Roger-Marx. Bernard Gantner then embarked on the start of an international career. " Fifty personal exhibitions in Japan, sixty in the United States, ten in Canada, exhibitions in England and in all the major cities of France. Retrospectives at the Château de Val, Abbaye de Baume-les-Dames, Musée Florival in Guebwiller, Mulhouse , Strasbourg, Vittel, Chicago, Basel, Tokyo.Numerous purchases by museums in France and abroad. "In 1998 he was awarded the Legion of Honor. He opens the Espace Gantner in Bourogne and makes a donation of his lithographic work: more than 550 lithographs as well as etchings; he illustrated among others the tales of Maupassant, the poems of E.Verhaeren and edited a dozen bibliophile books often with the collaboration of Claude Roger-Marx. After living on the shores of Lake Geneva, Bernard Gantner returned to his native region where he devotes his time to his art, his museum and to the embellishment of the surrounding gardens which he transforms and designs himself. He finds his inspiration in the landscapes that surround him, constantly chasing snow, water and vegetation in all their forms in all seasons, preferring old snow-covered farms against a backdrop of fir trees in the Vosges and Haute-Savoie.