Maurice André

Maurice André lived in Aubusson throughout the war. Founder of the "Tapestry of France" cooperative group and member of the APCT (Association of Tapestry Painters and Cartoonists), he developed a personal aesthetic, distinct from Lurçat's, characterized by rigorous, cubist flat planes in a frequently minimalist color palette. He received ambitious public commissions, such as those for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg ("Europe United in Work and Peace") and the French Pavilion for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair ("Modern Technology at the Service of Man"). Quite naturally (and like Wogensky, Prassinos, and others), he then moved towards abstraction, initially in a rather lyrical style, then in an increasingly geometric one, following a trajectory very similar to that of Matégot.

In André's final style, geometry and its flat planes are tempered by hatching, stripes and other gradations.