Black and white portrait of contemporary figurative painter Alain Rouschmeyer sketching in his studio

An Artistic Path Built Over Time

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As a contemporary figurative painter, Alain Rouschmeyer develops a body of work centered on the human figure and its relationship to space.

Initially trained in architecture, he approaches painting with a constructed gaze, attentive to lines, volumes, and postures. Drawing, practiced daily, forms the foundation of his work and accompanies each stage of the pictorial process.

This path unfolds within an artistic approach in which architecture, drawing, and painting are in constant dialogue.

Training and Influences

Alain Rouschmeyer first trained in fine arts at the Beaux-Arts de Metz, before continuing his studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and later at the École du Rhin.

In Strasbourg, he encountered a demanding academic education in which drawing, the study of the figure, and the construction of the gaze held a central place. This rigorous approach established a lasting relationship to time, observation, and the precision of line.

Attention to human posture, to the balance of bodies, and to their inscription within space became a foundational element of his work. Drawing is not a means, but a place of thought.

He later completed this path with studies at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Lyon. This training deepened his understanding of built space, structure, and composition, and reinforced an architecturally informed reading of reality.

Between fine arts and architecture, his work is shaped by a dual discipline: that of the slow gaze and that of construction. Influences are never claimed as models, but absorbed as working principles, gradually integrated into a personal practice over time.

Artistic Approach

To look, to observe, to feel.
It is from this attentive relationship to reality that the work of Alain Rouschmeyer takes shape. Rooted in an architectural background, his practice seeks to understand the movement of the human body within given spaces, and to grasp the subtle relationship between a posture and the place that receives it.

The simplicity of a pose—sometimes almost incidental—is enough to reveal the presence of a passage. A body settles, a space opens. Nothing is demonstrative. What matters is this silent encounter between the human figure and its environment, whose meanings are never entirely given.

Painting then explores zones of tension: interior and exterior, presence and absence, fullness and emptiness. These oppositions are not treated as effects, but as perceptual states that shape our way of seeing. Space may become a setting or recede, support the figure or leave it alone, facing itself. Time does not unfold in a linear manner; it operates through cycles, returns, and reprises, like a memory in motion.

Sketching occupies an essential place in this approach. It captures the instant, fixes a posture, outlines an idea without ever freezing it. From these fragments emerges a figurative painting in which reality and imagination intersect, without hierarchy, within a deeply human approach.

Composition, finally, engages the body within the very space of the canvas. Format is never neutral: it contributes to the presence of the subject and to its inscription within the surface. Between classicism and timelessness, the work invites a form of inner wandering, akin to a silent walk in which one loses oneself in order to find oneself again. It is this suspended moment that painting seeks to hold.

Exhibitions, Distinctions, and Collections

The work of Alain Rouschmeyer has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad.

He has received several distinctions, and his works are now held in private collections in France, Switzerland, and across several European countries, reflecting a trajectory that naturally extends beyond national borders.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Today, this path finds its full expression in a contemporary figurative practice developed over time.

Status

Professional visual artist.

Member of ADAGP
Member of the Fondation Taylor

Practice situated within the contemporary art market.

Over time, this path has prompted sensitive responses and external critical interpretations.

  • 2023 :

    Sélection ART VUE Printemps 2023 et mention pour l’oeuvre “SOUVENIR D’ENFANCE”

    Mention honorifique pour l’oeuvre “L’IMPORTANT C’EST… “ - PRIX INTERNATIONAL DES PROFESSIONNELS DE L'ART 2022 - catégorie figuratif - MONDIAL ART ACADEMIA

    2022 :

    1er prix à l’exposition collective CASINO Grand Cercle à Aix les Bains - France - pour l’oeuvre “L’IMPORTANT C’EST…”

    1er prix à l’exposition collective CASINO Grand Cercle à Aix les Bains - France - prix du public du meilleur artiste.

    Artiste certifié et coté i-CAC - PARIS - France

    2021 :

    1er prix Exposition Printanière - Galerie GALLEA - Canada avec l’oeuvre “MAIN DANS LA MAIN”

  • 2025 :

    Parutions sur : ART Muse express - ARTWORLD Daily

    2024 :

    Différentes parutions sur des revues américaines et sur le magazine Artmajeur. ART Muse express - ARTWORLD Daily - The ARTWORLD Post, etc..

    2023 :

    Interview RADIO GRAND LAC Aix les Bains - septembre 2023

    BRUXELLE ART VUE - Mention d’honneur - Magazine Printemps 2023

    2022 :

    VIVRE A ANNECY - Le Mal #27 - novembre 2022 - Alain Rouschmeyer la peinture refait surface

    LOFT & DECORATION - Hiver 2022 - Artistes du monde - Alain Rouschmeyer artiste peintre

    ARTMAJEUR Magazine N° 22 - Artistes qui montent : Alain Rouschmeyer

    2021 :

    BRUXELLE ART VUE - Human body is art - Alain Rouschmeyer

  • expositions solo

    2024 :

    Hôtel BEAU SITE - Talloires - France

    2022 :

    ATELIER GUSTAVE - PARIS - France

    Une autre dimension / Espace Johnson - Los Angeles - États-Unis

    2020 :

    INFLUENCES / Galerie Influence - Moscou - Russie

    expositions collectives

    2023 :

    ART CHAMPERY - CHAMPERY - Suisse

    Galerie St Georges - LYON 5 eme - France

    “Regard sur l’art” - 74 ETREMBIERES - France

    6eme SALON D’ART CONTEMPORAIN - Casino Grand Cercle - Aix les Bains - France

    2022 :

    ATELIER GUSTAVE - PARIS - France

    5eme SALON D’ART CONTEMPORAIN - Casino Grand Cercle / hall mauresque - Aix les Bains - France

    WIEN ART FAIR - Palais Palffy - Vienne - Autriche

    LUXEMBOURG ART PRICE - La Pinacothèque - Luxembourg

    EXPOMETRO - Los Angeles - Etats-Unis

    2021 :

    BUSINESS ART FAIR - Espace Nesle - Paris - France

    4eme SALON D’ART CONTEMPORAIN - Casino Grand Cercle / hall mauresque - Aix les Bains - France

    EXPOSITION PRINTANNIERE - Galerie Galléa - Canada-Sélection de l’oeuvre “MAIN DANS LA MAIN”

    XXII Salon international Esart Galeria / Galerie Esart - Barcelone, Espagne

    LUXEMBOURG ART PRICE - La Pinacothèque - Luxembourg

    2020 :

    LUXEMBOURG ART PRICE - La Pinacothèque - Luxembourg

  • collections privées

    2024 / 2025

    Plusieurs oeuvres en collections privées : Italie, France, Angleterre, Allemagne…

    2023 :

    1 oeuvre en collection privée à Bâle - Suisse

    Plusieurs oeuvres sur Genève en collections privées

    2022 :

    1 oeuvre en collection privée à Bâle - Suisse

    1 oeuvre en collection privée à Metz - France

    1 oeuvre en collection privée aux Îles Canaries - Espagne

    1 oeuvre en collection privée à Milan - Italie

    1 oeuvre en collection privée à Venise - Italie

    1 oeuvre en collection privée à Athènes - Grèce

    2021 :

    3 oeuvres en collection privée à Annecy - France

    2 oeuvres en collection privée à Genève - Suisse

    3 oeuvres en collections privées à Bruxelles - Belgique

    2 oeuvres en collections privées à Los Angeles - États-Unis

    2020 :

    3 oeuvres en collection privée à Barcelone et Madrid - Espagne

    2 oeuvres en collection privée à Londres - Angleterre

    2019 :

    2 oeuvres en collection privée à Milan - Italie

    1 oeuvres en collection privée à Genève - Suisse

    2018 :

    2 oeuvres en collection privée à Lyon - France

    1 oeuvres en collection privée à Tunis - Tunisie

    1 oeuvres en collection privée à Marrakech - Maroc

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