Jacques NESTLE(1907-1991) Jacques NESTLE(1907-1991) French painter Gouache on paper. Stamp of the artist in bottom right. Framed in solid oak. Circa 1960 XXth century. Dimensions as seen: H: 75; W: 106 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 that period, such as Kandinsky and Paul Klee. In 1933, he left for France and joined many other 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 colour and form, 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.