Alfred Manessier
(French, 1911–1993)
Biography
Alfred Manessier was a French artist whose abstract stained-glass windows, tapestries, and paintings renewed an interest in sacred art. Manessier’s use of luminous colors and dynamic shapes merged the influence of Paul Klee with a Christian reverence for light. “It's the passages between things which interest me,” he once said. “Something circulates amongst all forms of human experience ensuring a profound unity.” Born on December 5, 1911 in Saint-Ouen, France, he began a degree in architecture in 1929, before following his aspirations to be an artist and studying with Roger Bissière at the Académie Ranson in Paris. In 1937, Manessier began working with Sonia and Robert Delaunay as part of a team of 50 artists collaborating on large murals in Paris’s transportation hubs. Throughout his career, Manessier also decorated chapels and created décor for theatrical productions. The artist died on August 1, 1993 in Orleans, France. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Musées de Lorraine in France, among others.
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