2. Artists & stock
3. Henri Baviera
4. Biography

Notes of biography

In order to achieve good admeasurement, Baviera immerses the totality of the paper of the print, sheet of paper manufactured by hand and pure chiffon, in an equinoctial tide. Henri Baviera was born in Nice in 1934 from a Sicilian father and a mother of Saint Paul de Vence. The young boy is soon convinced of his vocation; thus, he follows courses of drawing, painting and engraving at the Council school of Nice, Villa Thiole, then in various free academies (1946-49). In 1950, the young man settles in Saint Paul, in his family home, where he tries out various medias (modelling, mosaic, etc). Four years later, he opens a gallery in this same village; he exhibits, amongst others, the painters Atlan, Coignard and Max Papart.
In 1957, Henri Baviera installs the first workshop of engraving in the Nice area, atelier opened to his friends painters and engravers; the artist develops the lithography and serigraphy.
Baviera continues his artistic trainee while studying in the “Grande Chaumière” (Paris, 1958-61), associates with Calavaert, Johnny Friedlaender and Henri Goetz, discovering contemporary engraving and the way in which Picasso treats it in particular.
On return at Saint Paul, he takes an active part in the creation of the municipal Museum of his village. The year 1965 marks the beginning of his research on a new process of engraving which he named “polychromy-reliefs” (not to be confused with the technique of carborundum). This technique is one of his marks. In the years 60-70, the presses lithography and copper-plate engraving of Baviera “work” intensely: César, Arman, Miotte, Carzou, Tobiasse, and much others, work at his place. Hans Hartung and Anna Eva Bergman attend also his dwelling.
Henri Baviera undertakes simultaneously the lead of his workshop and his work as a painter and engraver. In 1965, he writes his first book (Poems of Andre Verdet and engravings of Manfredo Borsi). He creates engraved wood for a second work in which he illustrates the poems of Verdet (“The trace and the echo”). The “book of artist” always remains for Baviera of high importance (in 2007, he has just carried out a work with the poet Jacques Kober). His workshop is transferred to Vence in 1974, then in Nice in 1987.
Henri Baviera “meets” Brazil in 1979; this first voyage has a capital influence on his personal life, as well as on his art; he creates there, in 2001, a workshop of engraving and initiation to art for young artists (Cuiaba, Mato-Grosso).

Baviera exhibits in New York in 1990, then, for the first time, in Japan; his work is permanently exhibited there since this date. His art, with the fruits of his labor, always evolves: mineral period, diagrammatic period, oneiric period, then period of purified expression. Since the Sixties until our days, in France and abroad, his works is being displayed in many group and personal exhibitions.
Henri Baviera is currently living and working in Lorgues (Var); where many of his workshops are installed.

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