BIOGRAFIE
1889 | Born in Yvelines, France |
1900 – 1904 | Attended the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, France, however, left school shortly afterwards to pursue a writing career |
1908 | Published his first collection of poems, La Lampe d’Aladin Met the famous Russian ballet-impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who ran the Ballets Russes |
1920 | Founded the magazine Le Coq together with Raymond Radiguet |
1929 | Published hiis most famous novel, Les Enfants Terribles(Children of the Game) |
1930 | Made the first film, Le Sang d’un poète |
1963 | Died in Milly-la-Forêt, France |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2013 | The Furnace of the Angels and All'Ambic - MUDAC - Musée de design es d`arts appliques contemporains, Lausanne The Drawing Project - Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL sous influences - arts plastiques et psychotropes - La Maison Rouge, Paris Picasso, Matisse, Chagall u.a. – Künstlerplakate aus der Werkstatt Mourlot - Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen |
2012 | Jean Cocteau, unique et multiple - Musée Fabre, Montpellier Der Nackte Mann - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz nackte männer von 1800 bis heute - Leopold Museum, Vienna From Picasso to Koons. Artist’s Jewellery - Benaki Museum, Athens Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Trasfiguration - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
2011 | Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
2010 | The Surreal Film House and Surreal Competition, Barbican Art Gallery, London, U.K Jean Cocteau: sur les pas d'un magicien, Palais Lumière, Evian, France |
2009 | The Lovers by Jean Cocteau, Cocteau Museum, Menton, France Jean Cocteau et la Méditerranée, Palais des Arts, Marseille, France |
2008 | Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Picasso 1917-1937, l'Arlecchino del Arte, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy Cocteau dessine l'Europe, Cosmopolis, Nantes, France |
2007 | Writer's Brush: Paintings and Drawings by Writers, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY Théâtre, cinéma, music-hall, ballet, Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France |
2006 | Théâtre de la Mode, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA Picasso and the Theatre, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Framkfurt, Germany La main du poète: The Hand of the Poet, Flers Castle Museum, Flers, France |
2003 | Jean Cocteau: Spanning the Century, Center Pompidou, Paris, France Jean Cocteau: Enfant Terrible, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
2001 | Jean Cocteau and Spain, Reina Sofia National Museum of Art, Madrid, Spain Jean Cocteau: "Ils" Angels and Demons, Bunkamura Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveling to: Eki Museum, Kyoto, Japan |
2000 | Erotic works of Jean Cocteau, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Jean Cocteau, James Van Dammer Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
1994 | Dance in Cocteau's Era, Serverin Wunderman Museum, Irvine, CA |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
1955 | member of the Académie française and The Royal Academy of Belgium |
1950 | won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival |
1949 | awarded a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
Severin Wunderman Museum, Irvine, CA Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA Jean Cocteau Museum, Menton, France The Cartier Colletion, Paris, France The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |