William Einstein, a Picard artist?

Name: William Einstein, a Picard artist?
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Le Carmel - Maison du Patrimoine

Exposure

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Einstein, Bateaux au Hourdel, 1968, huile sur toile, 65 x 54 cm © famille Einstein

Free tour of the exhibition "William Einstein, a Picard artist?" William Einstein entered his very rich production in various artistic currents from the 1930s until his sudden death in 1972. The exhibition presented to you questions the painter’s last years when Picardy was his source of inspiration. But was William Einstein only a Picard painter? Thanks to the generous loans granted by the artist’s family, some works presented for the first time in Abbeville allow to lift the veil on one of the many facets of the artist.
Saturday and Sunday | 14H-18H Free Entrance through the chapel of the Carmel (inner courtyard)

About the location

Le Carmel - Maison du Patrimoine

36 rue des Capucins - 80100 Abbeville

Somme
Hauts-de-France

The convent of Amiens that cannot any more face(deal with) candidates' influx, one decides on it to build a new in Abbeville. The first sisters Carmelites arrive from 1636\. After revolutionary period, the community settles down in the old(former) convent of the Capuchin friars, in the eponym street, in 1821\. Over the years, the nuns restore him(it) and transform it into regular carmel. Not be numerous enough any more to live in the building, they leave places in 1998, date to which the City comes purchaser of property. Today the Carmel finds a second life by becoming the House of Heritage.