Paul Monnier

Paul Monnier (1907–1982) was a Swiss painter.

Biography Monnier was born in Montana-Vermala. From 1924 to 1930, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, took multiple trips in Italy and France, and was a member of the :fr:Ecole des Pâquis. Sion (Cathedral), Sion (St Ursule's Chapel), Crans-Montana (Parish church), Viège (St Martin's church), Zurich (St Konrad's church), Zurich-Enge (Three-Kings' church), Dubendorf (Maria- Friedenskirche), Lausanne (St Joseph's church), and Geneva (Notre-Dame's basilica). Paul Monnier worked with Alexandre Cingria and Gino Severini (Lausanne, Notre-Dame du Valentin).

Illustrations Nourritures valaisannes. Maurice Zermatten, LUF, Fribourg, 1938. Notre ami le Vin. Pierre Courthion, W. Egloff, Fribourg, 1943. Le parcours du Haut-Rhône. Charles-Albert Cingria, W. Egloff, Fribourg, 1944. Le bazar de la Charité. Paul Morand, Club des Bibliophiles, Genève, 1944.

"Paul Monnier's work is firstly and mainly painting. This truism conceals a constant proceeding, highly true to itself and to the craft - which is not a minor achievement given a world where creative activity seems to be more and more confined by concept and word jugglers! Cancelled movement, suspended vibration, objects and figures immobilized in their inmost loneliness, our glance seizes the composition like a wordless poem, a soundless music. The full circle of the creative route is then completed and painting joins its own mystery." (Bernard Zumthor, 1975)