Julien Dinou (1895-1983)
San Giminiano
Pastel on Paper
63x47 cm


Julien Dinou (Arnold Neuweiler) was born in 1896, Cairo, of Swiss parents. From 1945 onward he started to use the pseudonym Julien Dinou in his work, and partly in his correspondence (among his friends Otto Nebel and Paul Klee).

During his time in Paris, when Dinou decided to completely focus on painting, his work developed into a vivid, joyful, and colorful abstract language. His city- & landscape paintings recall French impressionists {École de Paris, which he encountered during his time in Paris}, but in a simplified iconographic fashion, and with a very personal {inward looking} optic.