Jean DEYROLLE, peintre

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MUNICH AND THE BAROQUE .

From 1959 to 1967, i. e during the 9 years he taught at the akademie der bildenden Kunste, J.D. went five or six times a year to Munich where he stayed a week to give French lessons. In the Academy, he had at disposal a studio entirely furnished by himself (see § The collector). Through the window, beyond the park, he could see Schwabing, the district inhabited by Klee and Kandinsky at the time of the " Blue Rider ". He devoted almost all his time to his students, keeping only one day in the middle of his stay to visit Bavaria with one of his German colleagues, the Professor Oberberger and his wife. They visited baroque churches, castles, museums, antique shops. J.D. was moved by the baroque style. Though it seemed impossible for him to integrate it in his art, he admitted in a lecture hat he gave in 1964 (see § Work of the painter) :

L'atelier Deyrolle
à l' "Akademie der bildenden Kunst" de Munich. Robert Jacobsen et J.D. avec des élèves vers 1964.

" One day, much to my surprise, the baroque infiltrated my work, without my knowing it. I was carried along. The sort of self-control and concentration to be found in earlier paintings had vanished. The touch became more and more free, forms exploded, the extremely rigorous construction became less strict the outline more intense. Before, forms only mattered, whereas from now onwards, the graphic element is introduced like a baroque element. "