Jean Baier
1932Born in Geneva.
1947Starts painting.
1951Attends a conference of Fernand Léger on architectural polychromy which will decide his vocation and will deeply mark his art.Jean Baier is close to the concrete art of Zurich, in the tradition of Max Bill. His work is in line with the aesthetic principles of Piet Mondrian: ignorance of the curved line, pure chromatism and perfect balance of the composition without any symmetry. He uses a chromatic range limited to the fundamental colors that are red, blue and black in order to best express the expressive and architectural value of each of them. These are treated in flat tints in pure and unequal geometric forms sliding against each other in subtle oblique games.
1999Dies.
1947Starts painting.
1951Attends a conference of Fernand Léger on architectural polychromy which will decide his vocation and will deeply mark his art.Jean Baier is close to the concrete art of Zurich, in the tradition of Max Bill. His work is in line with the aesthetic principles of Piet Mondrian: ignorance of the curved line, pure chromatism and perfect balance of the composition without any symmetry. He uses a chromatic range limited to the fundamental colors that are red, blue and black in order to best express the expressive and architectural value of each of them. These are treated in flat tints in pure and unequal geometric forms sliding against each other in subtle oblique games.
1999Dies.