Eugene Gabritschevsky, born in 1895 in Moscow into the Russian aristocracy, had a dazzling career as a biologist before falling into madness. His father, a bacteriologist, introduced him to science and Eugene soon became a renowned specialist in heredity, working in the United States and then in Paris at the Pasteur Institute. In addition to his scientific work, the young man painted, in his spare time, expressionist works.
The Russian Revolution broke out and his first behavioral problems appeared, which led him 12 years later to the psychiatric hospital in Haar (near Munich) where he remained until his death in 1979. What was once a Sunday occupation suddenly became a frantic activity: for three decades, he painted and drew without respite on anything he could get his hands on - calendars, magazines, administrative circulars, etc. - by means of charcoal, graphite, watercolor and gouache. It is then a multiple universe that he inaugurates: if many of his works are fantastic, populated with ghostly characters, strangely disturbing, where reigns a fascinating atmosphere, several others prove to be non-figurative, tachist. Eugene particularly likes to leave a large place to chance in the whole of his creation and has fun making forms appear by randomly passing a sponge or a rag on the previously spread paint, or by using foldings.
COLLECTIONS
Collection du musée d'art moderne de Paris - MAM (FR)
Collection du Centre national d’art et de culture - Centre Georges-Pompidou (FR)
Collection de l'Art Brut de Lausanne (CH)
Collection des Abattoirs de Toulouse (FR)
American Folk Art Museum (USA)
Collection de l’Abbaye de Beaulieu C.N.M.H.F (FR)
Collection Jacques & Thessa Herold (FR)
Collection abcd - Bruno Decharme (FR)
Collection Antoine de Galbert (FR)
Collection Emmanuelle et Guy Delcourt (FR)