Pierre Wemaëre


Pierre Wemaëre was a French painter and tapestry designer.

Biography

Wemaëre was born in Comines, France in 1913. Wemaëre was a student in Fernand Leger's Atelier de l'Art Contemporain in the mid 1930s. In the 1940s Wemaëre took up weaving and tapestry design as part of his art practice. He was a long-time friend and collaborator with Asger Jorn, who he had met at Leger's Atelier.
He died in Versailles, France in 2010.

Collections

His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Tate Museum, London.