La cité, 2024

Evelyne Widmaier  

Painter

Evelyne Widmaier began exhibiting in regional salons in 1982 and has regularly participated in major national salons since 1987. Her work has also been presented abroad (Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Egypt, Spain, United States, Japan, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, etc.).

Her works have been exhibited since 1985 by various galleries in Belfort, Besançon, Châtenay-Malabry, Colmar, Gif-sur-Yvette, Lyon, Mulhouse, Paris, Strasbourg and Troyes. She regularly has solo exhibitions.

• 2010: The Museum of Fine Arts in Mulhouse dedicates a major exhibition to him.
• 2012: The Taylor Foundation invites him to exhibit his paintings in its gallery on rue La Bruyère in Paris.
• 2014: The Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris presents his works.
• 2016: Evelyne Widmaier becomes a permanent artist at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery.

A member of the Société des Artistes Français for 35 years, she has also been a member of the Taylor Foundation since 2009 and of the Salon d'Automne in Paris since 2014. She has been an associate member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts since 2017, of AIDA since 2007 and of the Art de Haute-Alsace association since 2021.

“Painting is my mode of expression. I feel completely free with colors; I play with them. I paint at home, with the daylight coming from the left, listening to Bach, Brahms, or Schubert. I forget everything I know, and that's where I constantly discover. I like to build, deconstruct, apply the material, scrape it, manipulate it, until the canvas suddenly comes alive with its own life."

The subject doesn't matter. It's about bringing life and its contrasts back to life—air, space, light, movement—with a few colors and a brush on a linen canvas. Perhaps trivial, but so invigorating!

Evelyne Widmaier – Happy Colors
160 pages, 118 color reproductions, texts by the artist and André Hirt, contributions by Carole Martinez and Joël Delaine, 2023.