Georges Rohner

signed original lithograph

1972

Georges Rohner ( French, 1913-2000)was a Paris born painter and printmaker of international repute. Known stylistically as a realist, his creative endeavors often edged towrd surrealism. He studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, France under the French painter and teacher, Lucien Simon (1861-1945). Rohner also had an active teaching career, first as a lecturer at the Ecole de Beau Arts, and then by 1962, as a professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, both in Paris. In 1963 he was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters. Later that decade, Rohner was elected to the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris where he held the chair of Ingres. The Museum of Fine Arts in Quimper, France held a retrospective of Rohner's oeurve in 1987. Rohner's work has been exhibited regularly throughout Europe and the United States, including the Venice Biennale, nd Wildenstein Co. in New York.