Jacques Nestlé (1907-1991) French painter Gouache and collage on paper. Stamped by the artist lower right. Framed in solid oak. Circa 1960 20th century. Dimensions when viewed: H: 106; W: 75 cm Jacques Nestlé 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 time, 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-19th century. In Paris, Henri Matisse noticed his work, encouraged him and provided him with 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 Nestlé, who described himself as "neither a painter nor an artist, simply a man who paints", did not accept Kahnweiler's proposal. Jacques Nestlé was a painter of colour and form, in the same artistic vein as some of his contemporaries such as Kandinsky, Mondrian and Miró. His nudes, sometimes stylised to the extreme, in which the female form becomes coloured lines and contours, recall the curves of Matisse's nudes or the anatomical composition of Picasso's cubist nudes.