Marcel Lempereur-Haut
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World War I
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he worked as a technical draughtsman
Technical drawing
Technical drawing, also known as drafting or draughting, is the act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or has to be constructed.Drafting is the language of industry....
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In 1920, he joined the group publishing the Anthologie art magazine. He started his artistic career by producing book illustrations and prints, mostly inspired by cubism
Cubism
Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture...
. He produced his first abstract art
Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
in 1921, and in 1922 befriended František Kupka
František Kupka
František Kupka was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic cubism...
. From 1932, he participated in the exhibitions of the musicalist artists.
He lived in Paris from 1945 to 1958, and participated in the exhibitions of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles
Salon des Réalités Nouvelles
The Salon des Réalités Nouvelles is an association of artists and an art exhibition in Paris, focusing on abstract art.A first exhibition with the name was held in 1939 in Galerie Charpentier, organised by Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Nelly van Doesburg and Fredo Sidès.In 1946 the Salon was...
. At this stage, his work mainly comprised combinations of circles, spirals and stars. His later works were mostly decorative.
Lempereur-Haut coninued to paint into at least his late seventies, limiting himself to crayons on cardboard after a cataract
Cataract
A cataract is a clouding that develops in the crystalline lens of the eye or in its envelope, varying in degree from slight to complete opacity and obstructing the passage of light...
operation in 1976 restricted his vision. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held in Lille in 1985.