Jan Voss - Color Ink Signed, Dated 78 And Dedicated

Jan Voss born October 9, 1936 in Hamburg, is a contemporary international artist. He is a painter, watercolorist, sculptor, ceramist and engraver.

He currently lives in France.

This beautiful and large original work is produced in color ink on Arche vellum. It is signed and dated 78 at the bottom right, the year in which it is exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris.
The work is dedicated lower left.
Presented under glass, the dimensions outside the frame are 76 x 56 centimeters.
With the frame the dimensions: 100 x 80 centimeters

Biography

Jan Voss leaves the family home and finds himself in Turkey while hitchhiking. He will stay there for six months. His father subsequently sent him a train ticket for the return trip.
He then enrolled at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts where he studied from 1956 to 1960. It was the drawings he brought back from Turkey that allowed him to enter the academy competition.
In 1960, having obtained a scholarship to spend a year abroad, he chose to come and live in Paris. From 1960 to 1972, he exhibited regularly alongside other artists belonging to the Narrative Figuration group.
In 1964 he notably produced a series of drawings which he entitled La Vie parisienne and had his first personal exhibition in Paris at the Galerie du Fleuve. Based between Paris and Berlin, he taught from 1966 to 1967 at the Hamburg School of Fine Arts.

In 1987, he was appointed professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris where he taught until 1992.
Books by artist Jan Voss and Jean Maison, One step before the other, 44-page work, print numbered from 1 to 45, signed by the artist and the author, enriched with a wood engraving and an original drawing by Jan Voss, Galerie Virgile Legrand.
Exhibitions 1964 Galerie du Fleuve, Paris 1978 Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris: Within sight 1981 Galerie Maeght, Paris 1982 Galerie Convergence, Nantes 1983 Galerie Maeght, Paris 1985 Galerie Maeght, Paris 1989 Musée de Bourg- en-Bresse 1992 Galerie Lelong, Paris 2000 Yamane Gallery, Tokyo Galerie Lelong, Paris Galerie Proarta, Zurich Banque Générale du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Galerie Kusseneers, Lier CAR. Montceau-les-Mines Entertainment and Meeting Center 2001 Museum of the Ancien Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun GAD, Annonay IUFM, Angoulême Galerie Léa Gredt, Luxembourg Manus presse, Stuttgart 2002 Museum of Fine Arts, Dunkirk Musée Sainte- Croix, Poitiers Galerie Boisserée, Cologne Stadtgalerie Villa Zander, Bergisch Gladbach Galerie Fernando Santos, Porto Chiado 8, Lisbon Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Spendhaus Reutlingen 2003 Museum of Fine Arts, Chambéry Galerie Lelong, Paris Galerie Ratton, Lisbon Galerie Lelong, Paris Galerie Rolf Ohse , Bremen 2004 Galerie Lelong, Zurich Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg 2005 Galerie Boisserée, Cologne Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin 2006 Galerie Dirimart, Istanbul Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki Galerie Höltje, Tübingen Galerie Academia Salzbourg 2008 Musée de Sens: retrospective Galerie Confluences, Lyon Grand Palais, Paris: Narrative Figuration -Paris 1960-1972 Regional Center for Contemporary Art, Montbéliard Galerie Boisserée, Cologne Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, Geneva Galerie Lelong, Paris 2009 Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin Galerie Rolf Ohse, Bremen Galerie Proarta, Zurich Galerie Balthazar, Brussels 2010 Hotel des Arts, Toulon: retrospective Muséede Louviers, Louviers: Sans papier 2011 Musée de Vendôme, Vendôme: retrospective Galerie Lelong, Paris 2012 Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, Geneva 2015 Grande Halle de l’espace Encan, la Rochelle Chapelle Saint Sauveur, Saint-Malo Center of plastic arts, Royan: recent works[3] Museum of art and history, Narbonne: Voss Libri Galerie Lelong, Paris 2016 Galerie Lelong, Paris, France 2018 Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France Maison des Arts de Chatillon, Chatillon, France 2019 Le Carmel, Tarbes, France 2020 Musée Quesnel-Morinière, Coutances, France 2021 Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France Exhibitions Edit Narrative Figuration Exhibitions from 1964 to 1972 Public collections Edit Landesmuseum, Schleswig-Holstein , Hanover: Dialogue of the deaf National Museum of Modern Art Center Georges-Pompidou Regional Contemporary Art Fund of Auvergne Regional Contemporary Art Fund of Poitou-Charentes National Contemporary Art Fund of Paris Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris Cantini Museum, Marseille Angers Museum of Fine Arts Louviers Museum Neue Galerie deer Stadt Linz Kunsthalle, Kiel Sprengel Museum, Hanover Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen Dunkirk Museum of Fine Arts Toulon Art Museum Calais Museum of Fine Arts Moderna Museet, Stockholm Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach Banque Générale du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Raiffeisen Bank Linz Museum Würth (de), Künzelsau Museum hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht Seibu Saison Museum, Karuizawa Ōhara Art Museum, Kurashiki Toyama Museum of Modern Art Toyama