Regner French Painter-engraver

In 1941, he is hired as an Art Teacher at the Lycée François 1er in Fontainebleau. He lives at the edge of the forest, a mysterious forest with its bizarre rock outcroppings, its tormented trunks,...

In 1937, a severe car accident forces him to stay in Normandy by the sea for his rehabilitation. He enjoyed fishing, and tracking enormous octopuses in their rocky caverns. Were not these the...

1929-1932 He studies in Paris at the Ecole du Louvre and at the Ecole Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. He becomes massier, master teaching assistant at the Atelier Jaulmes and, there,...

In 1927, he performs his military service in Tunisia where he discovers a very pure light that he captures in a series of watercolors. A crystalline purity of the light, which later emanates from...

Meanwhile, he boxes, plays rugby, and designs two lithographs for local sports associations; one red and yellow for boxing, one green, red and blue for rugby. In this latter work, the three...

This is when he suggested that we experiment with "automatic" painting; this was also when he painted the "le combat des Walkyries" mentioned earlier. Above all, this painting contains the seed of...

Soon, he found the instruction at the Fine Arts School both static and routine; it seemed not to lead anywhere. He has a presentiment and leaves the school in 1925 to create the Atelier Saint-Luc...

REGNER begins to demonstrate a rigor at this point in his career from which he will never depart. Witness here, this beautiful self portrait of 1922 which is drawn with authority. The acuteness of...

1915 - 1918 REGNER's parents, traumatized by the death of their oldest son, make him doubt his intellectual abilities and steer him towards painting. They enroll him in "L'Ecole régionale des...

In pursuing his path as a painter, REGNER completed each of the stages of training, starting with an apprenticeship in the basics. The relationship between master and apprentice is forged by...