Eve Gramatzki (born 1935 in Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, died 2003 in Paris)
Trained at the Hamburg School of Fine Arts, Eve Gramatzki moved to France in the 1970s, where she achieved relative renown for her stunningly precise pencil drawings of everyday objects. Multiplying formats and techniques, she created chromatic universes infused with light, often punctuated by horizontal lines in graphite. She brutally ended her life in her Paris studio.
Germaine Richier (b. 1902, Grans, Provence; d. 1959, Montpellier)
This major figure of twentieth-century sculpture left a body of work in drawing of rare intensity, unjustly overlooked. Quickly moving away from academic drawing, she explored fissure and disproportion through fragmented figures, then hybrid beings, half human, half animal, half insect, elaborating a personal mythology in which the boundaries between surface and volume, between inside and outside, are blurred. She is one of the few artists to have enjoyed a retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris during her lifetime.
