Georges ROHNER was born in 1913 in Paris. His uncle Georges Stugocki, a drawing teacher, gave him an early taste of art and thus developed his passion. In 1929, he left high school to attend the "galleries" of the School of Fine Arts where he would be received. A year later, he was admitted as a student at the Lucien Simon workshop as well as Robert Humblot, Jacques Despierre and Henri Jannot. Under the impetus of the critic Henri Hérault, he joined forces with Humblot, Jannot, Lasne, the Canadian Alfred Pellant Pierre Tal-Coat to found the movement "Forces nouvelles" which advocates the return to drawing, the return to the conscientious profession of tradition in a fervent contact with nature. In 1932, his desire for independence led him to leave Fine Arts and to rent a workshop with Robert Humblot. He travels to Spain and the Netherlands where he discovers the city of Amsterdam. During his military service in Guadeloupe, he decorated the town hall of Basse-Terre. In 1940 he was taken prisoner and interned in Trier. He decorated the chapel of the Stalag and kept it "Christ to the prisoners". In 1959 he was appointed lecturer at the École des beaux-arts and decorated with the Légion d'honneur. He continued his career as a professor of drawing and colours at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in 1962. In 1963 he was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters. In 1968, Rohner was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts where he occupied the chair of Ingres. In 1987, a retrospective was organized at the Museum of Fine Arts in Quimper.Georges Rohner died in 2000 at the age of 87 in Brittany. Various artists, writers, and institutions paid tribute to his work and his talent through the publication of books, short films, the acquisition of paintings and drawings. During his career, Rohner presented his works around the world in a hundred exhibitions organized by galleries, museums, and salons such as the Venice Biennale, the Independents' Fair, the Framond Gallery, the Paris Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, Wildenstein & C° Inc. in New York, the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, the Cardin Space in Paris, the Louvre Museum... Today, the Framond Gallery also exhibits its works during retrospectives and themes.
