Gérard Schneider (1896-1986) is a Swiss artist, he is an essential figure in the new Free and Gestural Abstraction that was born in Paris in the immediate post-war period.
In February 1916 he went to Paris, attended the National School of Decorative Arts and then in 1918 the National School of Fine Arts.
Gérard Schneider assimilated the revolution initiated by Kandinsky's Abstraction, while exploring the new horizons brought by Surrealism.
Gerard Schneider's painting plays a pioneering role in the birth of a new and radical Abstraction: Lyrical Abstraction.
His gesture is raw and vibrant, physical and liberated.
Deeply inspired by music, his brush strokes reflect his intention to translate pure emotion into painting.
Alongside Georges Mathieu, Hans Hartung and even Pierre Soulages, he very quickly saw his work acquire an international dimension.
Gérard Schneider exhibits on several continents where he will be invited for major institutional and biennial retrospectives. He continued to paint until he died in 1986 at the age of 90.

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“Lyrical Abstraction was mainly embodied in Gerard Schneider, like Cubism in Picasso.”
Michel Ragon