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Born in Buxy (Saône et Loire, France). Desserprit studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but the classical teaching was not to his liking; he opened up to the artistic movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries by seeing the work of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in books and that of artists such as André Derain and Maurice Vlaminck in the galleries of the Latin Quarter. The artist met Jean-René Bazaine, Raoul Ubac, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and, through the latter, Carmelo Arden and the MADI group, defenders of an abstract geometric aesthetic arising from the Neoplasticism of Piet Mondrian and the discussion of the Concrete Art of Doesburg. Desserprit then met Michel Seuphor, Marcelle Cahn, Auguste Herbin, Jean Arp and others; in 1949 he began to exhibit at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; members of the Salon included Arp, Jean-Baptiste Besançon, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Dewasne, Albert Gleizes, Jean Gorin, and Antoine Pevsner. In the support manifesto for the magazine Art d’aujourd’hui, he called with others for the “synthesis of the arts”; in 1951, he held an important exhibition entitled Structures et reliefs lumineux at the Colette Allendy gallery. The crucial point for understanding his work can be dated back to the 1970s. Desserprit exhibited and won awards in France, Italy and Monaco. His work is part of private collections in France and Italy, as well as the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Musée d’Art Moderne (Grenoble), and the Musée des Ursulines (Mâcon); one of his sculptures belongs to the city of Mâcon. He made a piece for the Crypte desDéportés, on the Île Saint-Louis (Paris).

Born in Osnabrück (Germany). A Neoplasticist, he was one of the first painters to produce abstract art throughout his career. The artist studied Architecture, Interior Design, and Sculpture at the Kunstgewerbeschule (Hannover). In 1924 he formed the K Group in his city, comprised of abstract artists, and joined Der Sturm in Berlin. The artist met Theo van Doesburg, Kurt Schwitters and Jean Arp; he joined De Stijl in 1925 and Cercle et Carré (Paris) in 1930; the following year, he became a founding member of Abstraction-Création, also in the French capital. In 1937 the artist was included in the “degenerate art” exhibition by the Nazis, who confiscated most of his work; he had to flee to the Netherlands.

One of the protagonists of the Belgian avant-garde, he was born in Diegem (Belgium) and studied at the Académie royale des beaux-arts (Brussels), where he graduated in 1917 with the highest qualifications and met Maes, Flouquet, Baugniet and Magritte. Between 1917 and 1919 he cultivated symbolism. Since 1917 he has participated in various group exhibitions; In 1918, together with Magritte, he cultivated the applied arts as a designer for the Peters-Lacroix wallpaper factory, an experience that led him to move from Fauvism to geometric abstraction. In 1920 he joined the La Plastique Pure movement. In 1922 he co-founded the magazine 7 Arts and with Magritte wrote the manifesto L’art pur. Défense de l’estéthique, influenced by Le Corbusier, Ozenfant and Reverdy’s cubist theories. Inspired by Baumeister and the purists, he abandons figuration for abstraction; geometrically evokes the world of machines and technology. In 1918 he exhibited his work for the first time at l’Effort Moderne, a meeting place for Cubists since World War I; There he met Marinetti, Van Doesburg, Léger and Duchamp. In 1926, thanks to Duchamp, he took part in the exhibitions of the Katherine Dreyer Anonymous Society in America and was invited by Moholy-Nagy to teach at the New Bauhaus (Chicago), an offer he rejected. He received a gold medal at the International Exhibition of Decorative and Industrial Arts (Paris, 1925). In 1926 he created the first “surreal” and “organic” abstractions, before Ernst. In 1928 he exhibited at Der Sturm. He represented Belgium at the Venice Biennales of 1948 and 1954. The Palace of Fine Arts (Brussels) organized a major retrospective; There are his works in the MoMA, Berardo collection (Lisbon), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid), Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Ghent), Center national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou (Paris) or Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Antwerp and Brussels). His paintings, sculptures and works on paper have been exhibited in museums such as the Lakenhal (Leiden) and the Tate Modern (London).

Born in Vienna. Designer and graphic artist; He makes graphic works, stained glass, ceramics, porcelain, blown glass, tableware, silver, jewelry, furniture, fashion. He studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste and at the Universität für angewandte Kunst; It is inspired by the clean lines and repetitive motifs of classical Greek and Roman art as a reaction to the baroque Viennese environment. In 1903, with Josef Hoffmann, he founded the Wiener Werkstätte, whose craftsmen produced household objects. In 1905, with Klimt’s group, he separated from the Vienna Sezession, and in 1907 from the Werkstätte.