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Jean Crotti
A life shaped by movement Jean Crotti began his studies in Munich at the School of Decorative Arts before moving to Paris at age twenty-three to attend the Académie Julian. His early years were spent absorbing the quiet rhythms of Impressionism, followed by the bold colors of Fauvism and the flowing lines of Art Nouveau. He moved through these styles with a steady focus on how light and form could be rearranged. Around 1910, his work b
egan to shift toward Orphism, an offshoot of Cubism that he explored alongside others in New York City. The years of the First World War brought him to America as a refugee. In New York, he shared a studio with Marcel Duchamp and met Suzanne Duchamp. This period of his life was marked by close associations with figures like Francis Picabia. He became involved in the Dada movement, creating works that used found objects, such as Les Fo…