Georges Dessouslavy
Born in 1898.
Died in 1952.
A Swiss painter from French-speaking Switzerland who worked in several genres and in public spaces, Georges Dessouslavy was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1898 and died in Yverdon in 1952. He first trained at the École d’art in La Chaux-de-Fonds, from 1914 to 1916, and then at the Geneva School of Fine Arts, where he studied until 1920.
His work encompasses figure painting, still lifes and landscapes, as well as lithography and the creation of monumental decorative schemes. He also taught at the École d’art in La Chaux-de-Fonds. According to the biography published by Artsper, his work was influenced by post-Impressionist painting in the 1930s, before undergoing a sudden shift towards post-Cubism.
The murals he painted in the halls of the railway stations in Neuchâtel in 1938, and then in La Chaux-de-Fonds between 1946 and 1952, brought his work into public spaces. Among the works mentioned by the Galerie des Annonciades is Nuit d’hiver, a large oil painting dated 1943, offered for sale.
