Gérard Schneider

1896-1986

"As for colour… it appears in these recent works by Schneider, with ever greater freedom, as the quintessential factor of life, even when this colour is the black that Schneider uses with the mastery  of one who know emotionally charged the suggestions of night and darkness are. The answer that these paintings find in the heart and intelligence – also fulfilled – of the beholder, completes this communion which had previously been established between the artist and the artwork, between form and space, between structure and motion."

Marcel Brion, Preface of the exhibition catalogue at the Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York 1958