André René César Brechet, Coucher du soleil au Pont Royal et Notre Dame, Paris, Oil on Canvas, Framed

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André Bréchet, born in Delémont in 1921 and died in 1993 in the same town, is a Swiss painter, sculptor … Read more André Bréchet, born in Delémont in 1921 and died in 1993 in the same town, is a Swiss painter, sculptor and glass artisan.

After his schooling in Delémont, he took painting, sculpture and drawing courses at the Kunstgewebeschule in Basel, from 1942 to 1944.

from 1944, he held numerous exhibitions of sculpture and painting in Switzerland and abroad.
Between 1947 and 1949, he was a student of the French painters André Lhote and Fernand Léger. During his French period, he notably frequented the Swiss sculptors Alberto Giacometti and Jean Tinguely, the French poet Paul Fort, the French cubist painter Jacques Villon as well as the Catholic writer Paul Claudel.

He created numerous stained glass windows for churches in Switzerland, the United States and France, and for individuals.
Among his works intended abroad, let us mention in particular the remarkable stained glass windows of the Saint-Joseph and St-Patrick chapels in Detroit in the American state of Michigan. Golden wooden frame
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