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Jean Michel Atlan was born in 1913 in Constantine in Algeria. In 1930
he moved to Paris, and in the beginning of the thirties he studied philosophy
at Sorbonne. In 1941 he started to paint, and shortly after release from
german war captivity (1942-1944) he exhibited for the first time in Paris,
and quickly received acknowledgment because of his expressive, abstract
motift of intertwined dark forms and figures in colorful surroundings.
His atelier in Paris became one of the meeting places of the small but
growing community against the conform european art.
In 1947 he joined the french-belgian group le surréalisme révolutionnaire,
and together with most of the painters he shared contacts with, Atlan
joined Cobra from the beginning in 1948.
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