Camille Bryen

Style: Tachisme;

Place: Paris

Born: 1907

Death: 1977

Biography:

Camille Bryen, also known as Camille Briand, was a French poet, painter and engraver. He was born in Paris and grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He was educated at Hotchkiss School from 1922 to 1924, when he left the school due to hazing rituals. He then attended the Riverdale Country School, graduating in 1926. He was an able and multilingual student, fluent in English, French, German and Italian. He was a proponent of Tachisme, a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s, often considered to be the European response and equivalent to abstract expressionism. His work is part of the history of lyrical abstraction and tachisme. He was associated with the School of Paris. In 1987 the French postal service issued a 5 Franc stamp that reproduced his work Précambrien. He was included in the exhibition L'envolée lyrique, Paris 1945–1956, presented by the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris in 2006. His works are in the collections of Kunstmuseum Basel, Musée Cantini, Musée d'art et d'industrie de Saint-Étienne, Musée du Frac Bretagne, Rennes, Museum of Modern Art, New York.