Alain Kleinmann is a Jewish French painter, sculptor and writer. The common themes of his works - oils on canvas, sculptures and lithographs - are memory and identity. Rich in the reflections of philosophers, a beautiful book often accompanies his exhibitions, based on emotion, disappearance and absence. What remains of the passage of a human being... This artist is the author of the essay "Interrogations sur l'art contemporain" (Les Editions de Paris Max Chaleil, 2018).
Israeli novelist Amos Oz wrote of Alain Kleinmann that his works are "a powerful commemoration of a world that has been murdered" and that his "work is quiet, whispered, but overwhelmed with nostalgia, compassion and warmth."
Alain Kleinmann was born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family decimated by the Holocaust in 1953 in Paris, where he lives and works.
About thirty books have been published on his figurative artistic work and his pictorial and sculptural works have been shown in international galleries and institutions as well as in more than fifty museums in Paris, Milan, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Lausanne, Stockholm, Brussels, Havana, Berkeley, Seoul, Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing, etc. He created with Hastaire the international group of painters "Mémoires".
