Germain Van der Steen

Germain Van der Steen, born Germain Vandersteen Mauduit Larive on July 7, 1897 in Versailles and died on April 12, 1985 in Garches1, is a French painter.

Germain Van der Steen is going to study in England and will graduate from Oxford.

Mobilized during the First World War, he was gassed.

After the armistice, he became a color merchant in the Étoile district of Paris. Passionate about painting, he paints at night. He is self-taught and his art is linked to naive painting. We distinguish three periods in his artistic career: the non-figurative period, then comes that of imaginary plants, multicolored with draperies and finally the period of bestiaries, where he mainly represents cats and birds. Its colors are very bright.