User:Macintosh20713/Jean-Paul Savigny

Jean-Paul Savigny is a French painter born in Pont-Aven on June 17, 1933 and died on July 28, 2001 in Saint-Herblain. He comes from a famous family of Breton artists.

Birth and family
Jean-Paul Savigny was born on June 17, 1933 in Pont-Aven.

His two grandfathers, his maternal grandmother, his uncles and aunts were painters, engravers, sculptors and ceramists. Among them, Henri Delavallée, one of the leaders of the Pont-Aven school, friend of Emile Bernard and Gauguin. His uncle, Jean Gabriel Henri Delavallée was also a sculptor.

His paternal grandfather was Azema Savigny, a painter who received several gold medals at the Paris Salon. His uncle Pierre Eugène Savigny is one of the great painters of his generation in France. His aunt, Berthe Savigny, sculptor and painter is particularly known for her babies and her ceramic statuettes, with the house H.B in Quimper.