Is a Swiss painter. He arrived in Paris at the age of 20. He took courses from Fernand Cormon at the National School of Fine Arts, the teacher of Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. Gérard Schneider held his first solo exhibition in Neuchâtel, Schneider's Art was then inspired by Impressionism. During the 1930s, he was influenced by the Surrealists and moved away from the representation of reality. When he met Picasso in 1944, he turned completely towards Informal Abstraction, for which he would become known. With Soulages and Hartung, he was one of the great figures of Lyrical Abstraction, and he exhibited with them at the Salon des Surin 1947. His best known works are based on gestural expression, characterized by colors marked by strength and instantaneity.