Georges Borgeaud

Georges Borgeaud is presented as a Swiss painter active in Geneva.

Orphaned at a very young age, he was placed in an orphanage, worked as a farmhand, and trained as a horticulturist. In 1936, he attended the École des arts et métiers de Genève, then worked in Christian Zwahlen’s studio between 1939 and 1945.

He settled permanently in Geneva, on Rue Hoffmann, and is recorded as having married a woman named Aurélie in 1938; in 1974, he left the city to settle in Certoux, in the canton of Geneva.

After an initial period in which his productions remained largely anonymous, he began exhibiting in 1947 and subsequently showed his work both in Switzerland and abroad. The places and dates cited include presentations in Paris (1962 and 1963), exhibitions in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka), Rio de Janeiro, the Musée du petit Palais in Geneva, and an exhibition at Galerie Vallotton in Lausanne in 1977. References to travel also associate motifs or journeys with Tahiti (1963), Los Angeles, and Copenhagen.

His œuvre includes numerous oils, watercolours, gouaches, etchings, and India-ink drawings. Titles and dates identified in the documentation include La Rotonde de la gare de Genève (1957–1958), Ouchy, Lausanne (1961), Marée basse (1963), Nature morte aux cerises (oil, 1969), and Tower Bridge, Londres (1971).

In bibliographical terms, René Terrier devoted to him a publication entitled Georges Borgeaud, le Peintre de la Lumière (Éditions Max Robert, 1974), as well as an entry in the Série Le Musée de Poche in the same year.