Jacques NESTL (1907-1991) French painter. Gouache and collage on paper. Stamped by the artist lower left. Framed in solid oak. Circa 1960 in the XXth century. Dimensions as seen: H: 52; W: 66.5 cm Jacques Nestl was born in 1907 in Saarbrücken. In 1925 he moved to Berlin, where he was influenced by the Bauhaus school and the avant-garde artists of the period, such as Kandinsky and Paul Klee. In 1933, he left for France and joined a number of artists in Paris, where the modern art revolution had already been underway since the mid-nineteenth century. In Paris, Henri Matisse noticed his Ďuvres, encouraged him and provided lasting inspiration. Later, the art dealer and collector Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler wanted to promote him, as he had done with Picasso, Braque, Derain and Gris. Jacques Nestl, who described himself as "neither a painter nor an artist, simply a man who paints" (Č), did not accept Kahnweiler's proposal. Jacques Nestl was a painter of colours and shapes, and in this he followed the same artistic line as some of his contemporaries such as Kandinsky, Mondrian and Mir. His nudes, sometimes stylized to the extreme, where the female form becomes lines and contours, recall the curves of Matisse's nudes or the anatomical composition of Picasso's cubist nudes.