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Henri Goetz is an American painter and illustrator of famous works, born in New York in 1909 (naturalized French in 1949).
He began his art studies at Harvard and continued at the Central School in New York. He studied again in Paris, at the Julian Academy, at the Grande Chaumière and in Amédée Ozenfant's atelier. Read the full biography

Henri Goetz is an American painter and illustrator of famous works, born in New York in 1909 (naturalized French in 1949).
He began his art studies at Harvard and continued at the Central School in New York. He studied again in Paris, at the Julian Academy, at the Grande Chaumière and in Amédée Ozenfant's atelier. His life and his acquaintances are rich, he will be friends with Arp, Picasso, Picabia, Hartung and Kandinsky. He began working with engraving in 1940, and, having become a master in this art, he enriched it with new processes, for example carborundum. Many personal exhibitions, particularly in Paris, have consecrated his work. His painting presents fantastic and dreamlike elements, particularly sensitive to Surrealism. In fact, he founded the magazine “La main à plume” with Raoul Ubac in the 1940s and 1941s. His art will move towards abstraction, where the gestures of the sign will find kinship ties with Soulages or Hartung. He then taught at the Ranson Academy, at the Grande Chaumière, at the old André Lhote Academy, before becoming professor of painting and engraving at the University of Vincennes in 1969.
He died in Nice in 1989.