BIOGRAPHY
Elvire Jan was a non-figurative or abstract painter from the New School of Paris who was born in Bulgaria in May 1904 and died in Paris on 19 January 1996.
After studying art in Switzerland and Bulgaria, she went to New Rochelle in the United States, where she studied with Max Weber at the Art Student League of New York.
She then moved to Paris in 1926, where she enrolled at the Académie Julliard and became friends with Jean Bazaine. She took part in several salons in the 1930s, including the Salon des Indépendants in 1932 and 1938.
After the war, Elvire Jan took part in the advent of non-figurative art with her friends, the "painters of the French tradition", mainly Bazaine, Bertholle, Le Moal and Manessier, whith whom she shared the same pictorial aspirations.
EXHIBITIONS
1998
- Rétrospective, Chapelle des Pénitents Bleus, La Ciotat, France
1992
- Rétrospective, Rosny-sur-Seine, France
1991
- 50 ans d’action et de réflexion sur l’art contemporain, Le Touquet, Arras, France
- Aquarelles-dessins, Jean Bazaine, Alfred Manessier, Jean Le Moal, Gustave Singier, Galerie Berthet-Aittouares, Paris, France
1990
- Hommage à Monet, Argenteuil, France
- Hommage à Elvire Jan, Salon de Bourg-en–Bresse, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
1989
- Grand Palais, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Galerie Domenico, Paris, France
- Galerie A.C.A.P., Le Touquet, Arras, France
- Elvire Jan. Huiles et aquarelles. 1945-1989, Centre Noroit-Arras, Arras, France
1988
- Galerie La Pochade, dans le cadre du Festival des galeries de la Rive Gauche, Paris, France
1987
- Grand Palais, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France
1986
- Le paysage français de Cézanne aux hyperréalistes, Sisteron, France
1984
- Galerie Jean-Louis Roque, Paris, France
- Hommage à Elvire Jan, Salon d’Art Sacré, Le Vésinet, France
1983
- Galerie Jean-Louis Roque, Paris, France
- Galerie de Luxembourg, Grand Duché de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Hommage à Sainte Thérèse d’Avila, Musée du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Salon des 109, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1982
- Galerie Kaganovitch, Paris, France
1981
- Galerie Kaganovitch, Paris, France
1980
- Lion’s Club, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
1979
- Galerie Kaganovitch, Paris, France
1972
- Galerie Chalet-Décor, Saint-Cergue, Switzerland
1970
- Maison de la Culture, Orléans, France
- Exposition chez les Dominicains, Paris, France
1969
- Galerie Mouradian, Paris, France
1963
- Galerie Marbach, Paris, France
1962
- Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, Sweden
- Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
- L’Art Contemporain, Crest, France
1961
- Salon d’Automne, Galerie Chichio Haller, Zurich, Switzerland
1960
- Exposition d’Art Sacré, Pontoise, France
- Galerie Bettie Thommen, Basel, Switzerland
- Art Contemporain, Lunéville, France
- Galerie Numaga, La-Chaux-de-Fonds, France
1959
- Galerie Art de France, Cannes, France
- Galerie de Varennes, Paris, France
1947
- Galerie Mouradian-Valloton, Paris, France
- Galerie Blanche, Stocholm, Sweden
- Galerie Benador, Geneva, Switzerland
- Musée de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Galerie Chichio Haller, Zurich, Switzerland
- Galerie du Zodiaque, Brussel, Belgium
- Galerie Bettie Thommen, Basel, Switzerland
1942
- Galerie de Beaune, Paris, France
1938
- Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
1933
- Galerie Van Leer-Mouradian, Paris, France
- Salon de Mai, Paris, France
1932
- Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France