Maurice André

Maurice André stayed in Aubusson throughout the war. Founder of the cooperative group 'Tapisserie de France', and member of the A.P.C.T. (Association of Tapestry Cartoonists), he developed a personal aesthetic, far from Lurçat, characterized by rigorous cubist flatness, often in a purified chromatic range, and received ambitious public commissions, for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg ('A United Europe in Work and Peace'), or the French Pavilion for the 1958 Exhibition in Brussels ('Modern Technology in the Service of Man'). Naturally (and like Wogensky, Prassinos,…), he then evolved towards abstraction, initially rather lyrical, then in an increasingly geometric style, on a trajectory very close to that of Matégot.

In André's ultimate style, geometry and its flat areas are tempered with hatching, stripes and other gradients.