Grimm Pierre

(Dnipro, Ukraine, 1898 – Paris, France, 1979)

He was a trainee at the workshop of Jan Ciągliński for a brief time, and then spent several months at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sankt Petersburg in 1914. He was interested in photography. He moved to Zagreb in 1920, then to Vienna and later to Berlin. He settled down in Paris in 1923, where he painted with gouache and oil in Impressionist style. He lived in Montparnasse, where he opened a small workshop in 1930. He exhibited at a retrospective exhibition of Russian painters in Prague in 1935. He spent the war in Paris, where he opened a workshop. After the war, he turned to abstraction, and designed tapestries for the Beauvais workshops. He had solo exhibitions in Paris, New York, London, Stockholm, and Oslo. Exhibited regularly at the Salon d’Automne since 1962.