Jean-Marie Haessle
Jean-Marie Haessle (born 1939) is a French-American painter. He is primarily known for his abstract, geometrical, and impressionist paintings. His work is associated with American Modernism and makes use of Color Field composition. He currently lives in SoHo, Manhattan. Early life From Buhl a small village in France, Jean-Marie Haessle's exposure to art didn't come until later in his adolescence. At the age of fourteen, Haessle worked at a salt mine. In 1958, he became very ill and was bedridden at the hospital for six months due to a kidney infection. This was his first introduction to art through reading a book on the Impressionists. While at the hospital, he created many works on paper. After his recovery, he would continuously read, despite its inaccessibility in his isolated village. While continuing to work at the mines, a job he hated, he dreamed of becoming an artist and moving to Paris. Before making his way to Paris, he was drafted into the French Army. He spent three years in service, stationed half the time in Germany as a French occupant, and half the time in Algeria. In Munich, Haessle was exposed to art physically when he visited his first art museum.