About the Artist
Francois Fiedler
Francois Fiedler (1921 - 2001) was a Hungarian-born naturalized French painter, one of the vitally important artists in the Aime Maeght stable that included Chagall, Giacometti, Miro, Brach, Cesar, Ubac, and Tal-Coat. Fiedler's life and art was chronicled in many books and journals, including Collection de la Fondation Maeght, and several Maeght publications entitled simply Fiedler. After receiving a Masters in Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Budapest, he moved to Paris with his first wife in 1946. His wife died six months later, leaving him alone in a country where he barely spoke the language and had no friends. To make money, he made official copies of famous paintings for museums, as well some small figurative paintings of his own. He met his second wife, Claire, and they lived in a little house in the forest south of Paris. One day while looking at a pot of house paint, crackled by the sun and making such beautiful designs, he decided to reproduce this process on canvas. After this he never made any more figurative paintings, finding so many forms of expression in this new technique. During his long career, he was regularly featured in salon shows alongside his contemporaries mentioned above, and his works were a regular feature in the Maeght Foundation publication Derriere le Miroir.
