Gérard Ernest Schneider (1896 - 1986)

Gérard Ernest Schneider

Gérard Ernest Schneider is a Swiss and French artist, one of the creators of lyrical abstraction.

He graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris. And in the post-war years, the art of Gerard Schneider played a pioneering role in the birth of a new form of abstraction. Schneider, together with other artists in Paris, proposed a new, radical form of abstraction and called it lyrical abstraction. From the mid-1940s large exhibitions were organized in Paris and later in Germany, bringing together the main representatives of the new style.