About the artist:
Christian Fossier was a draftsman, painter and engraver born September 9, 1943 in Paris and died in the same town March 3, 2013. Professor at Metz art school from 1977 to 1981 and workshop teacher-chef (burning) at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA) from 1987 to 1993, he participated in many biennales and collective exhibitions since 1965. Many works (pastels, drawings, prints, books) are found in public and private collections in France and abroad. Major Exhibitions 1965: House of Fine Arts, Paris 1966: English Bookshop, Paris 1967: Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris 1970: Galerie La Hune, Paris 1972: Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble 1972: Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck 1973: Album "Land", Galerie La Hune, Paris 1974: Gallery Chevaline, Bordeaux 1975: Galerie La Hune, Paris 1977: Centre Georges Pompidou, Workshop Today Paris (Yves Hamon text) Album Fon, Michèle Broutta editions, Paris (Bernard Noël text) Galerie Beaubourg, Paris 1980 "Y.H.T.A. "Maeght editions, Paris 1981 Galerie Maeght, Paris 1983 School of Fine Arts, Valencia 1986 School of Fine Arts, Angers 1987: The Great Eight, Rennes (text René Baudouin Lascault Gilbert, Jean-Louis Pradel, Hubert Tonka) 1988 French Cultural Center, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig Major Group Exhibitions 1968: Gallery of Messina, Paris Galerie La Hune, Paris 1969: American Center, Paris "Printing of Paris' National Library of Spain, Madrid "500 contemporary prints," National Library of Spain Paul Fachetti Gallery, Paris Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland 1970: "Art without limits", French Association for Artistic Action, Montreal 1972: Tamenaga Gallery, Paris 1976: "The Boxes" Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris 1977: "nature on paper," CNAC, Paris 1978: "Real, Realism, Reality," Beaulieu Abbey 1978: "Wo Zu? "Nina Dausset gallery, Paris 1978 National Library of France, Paris 1979 "Workshop Lacourière-Frélaut, 50 years of intaglio engraving," Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris 1980: "The Pastel" Art Centre, Ancy-le-Franc 1981: "The Drawing" National Centre for Art and Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris 1982: "The French Drawing", the Seita Museum, Paris 1983: "Paris-Montreal, Contrast," Mount Royal Art Centre, Montreal 1984 "Invitation", Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris "Soils" CNAC, Paris 1985 "Self Portrait," the Seita Museum, Paris 1992: "From Bonnard to Baselitz, prints and artists' books. Ten years of enrichment of 1978-1988 Print Room ", National Library, Paris (F. Woimant text) 1993. "Some large states of contemporary engraving" The Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (edition of an original gravure) 1994: "From the Atlantic Wall at the Berlin Wall", the Regional Council of Basse-Normandie, Caen; Museum of Fine Arts, Saint-Lô (text Sabrina Grassi) 2005: "Il giro della Puglia in 80 fotografie, Homage to Jules Verne," Castel del Monte, Italy 2007: "Tribute to the Lacourière Frélaut-shop" Michele Broutta gallery, Paris Biennales and prices 1965 Edition of the Paris Biennale 1966: Tokyo, Kyoto 1967 Paris (price), Ljubljana, Vancouver 1968: Tokyo, Kyoto, Barcelona, Menton 1969: Ljubljana (price) 1970: Krakow, Florence (gold medal), Barcelona, Menton 1972: Venice 1976: Mulhouse (price) 1979 Bradford, Condé-sur-Scheldt, Heidelberg, Ljubljana (price) 1982: Alexandria (price) 1985 New Delhi, Taïphe Salons Young contemporary engraving (1963, 1964, 1965) French painters and engravers (1964) New Realities (1965, 1966) May Salon, Paris (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969) May Salon, Cuba (1967) Public Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York Art Institute of Chicago Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York Westinghouse Electric C °, Pittsburg National Library of Spain, Madrid National Library of France, Paris Museum of Contemporary Art, Rilbac National Fund for Contemporary Art, Paris Regional Funds of Contemporary Art Private collections (France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, USA)