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Roger Decaux  

Roger Decaux (29 nov 1919 à Dombasle sur Meurthe – 19 nov 1995 à Nancy)

Literate and pedagogue, Roger Decaux trained in art history and philosophy. He was a teacher, wrote press articles in the art and philosophy sections, and was an art critic. He lived for a long time in Paris where he rubbed shoulders with many artists, participated in artistic and philosophical programs and magazines as well as taught art history and led workshops. He was very close to the painter Gino Severini. But what has mainly marked his life is his ability to put his open and cultivated mind at the service of his creativity. Winner of numerous prizes: Galilée Prize, Stanislas Academy Prize in Nancy and Trio Prize from the Belgian Ministry of Culture, he has translated into his work an enlightened and corrosive vision of our society. Its notoriety goes far beyond the national framework. If we can see his works in museums in France: museums of Nancy and Saint-Dié where a room is dedicated to him, he is also in many museums abroad: museums of Berlin, Amsterdam, Antwerp, from Indiana in the United States. He also produced frescoes for the church of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and for the Faculty of Letters in Mexico City. His works have been exhibited all over the world: Lyon, Paris, Menton, Metz, Aix-en-Provence, Limoges, Troyes, Strasbourg, Gothenburg, Munich, Venice, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Amsterdam, Geneva , Montreal, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Miami, Ghent, Pittsburgh, Indiana, Rennes, Rouen, Lille, Le Touquet.