Auguste HERBIN

Auguste HERBIN (1882 - 1960)

In 1943 Auguste Herbin created the Plastic Alphabet. He arbitrarily associated with each letter geometric shapes, colors, tones. He used the alphabet as a working process: he chose a word from which he detached each letter, associating that letter with a shape and a color provided by his alphabet, and arranged the shapes and colors so as to balance the table surface.

Born in 1882 in Quiévy died in 1960 in Paris

Selection of the main exhibitions
2001 London Royal Academy of Art, England
2002 Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2003 Kunstmuseum Lentos, Linz, Austria
2005 Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2007 Museums of the Castle of the Dukes of Württemberg, Montbéliard
2009 Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany
2010 Fine Arts of Nimes
Works in museums and public collections
M.A.M. G. Pompidou Center, Paris
Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris
Museum of Grenoble
MOMA New-York, USA