About alain rouschmeyer
Painter, architect, observer of human postures
A Contemporary Figurative Painter
Alain Rouschmeyer studied at the Beaux-Arts in Metz, graduated from the École des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, and earned his architecture degree from the National School of Architecture in Lyon. An artist since childhood, trained as an architect, and an urban sketcher driven by a passion for drawing, he brings together these three dimensions in his creative journey.
He is a painter of the living, drawing his inspiration from reality. He mainly paints on medium-sized canvases—like open windows onto a vibrant universe. A keen observer of the world, he reflects on the way humans move through space and the postures they adopt. This active exploration allows him to grasp the essence of everyday life and to extract from it an inspiring poetry. His view of the ordinary shapes his identity as an artist – architect – urban sketcher.
His artistic path naturally leads him to work with architecture, where he reflects on living spaces and the interconnectedness of their uses. Like a poetic analyst, Alain Rouschmeyer’s work navigates between reality and intimacy, revealing both attachment and detachment through conscious intention. He explores the hidden dimensions of daily life, which continue to speak to us—like the warm tones of jazz or blues music.
Improvisation plays a key role in his artistic language. Rhythm, counterpoint, and the pursuit of harmony support a free, vibrant, and spontaneous painting style. His brush gives resonance to the noise of our lives. The romanticism he fully embraces—contemporary and timeless—inhabits the canvas like a deeply involved space.
Between lived experience and imagined images, his figurative work moves us through its closeness and the sensitivity of each piece.
His Approach
To look, observe, feel, and imagine—as a way to better perceive the fabric of life and its everyday moments.
An artist shaped by an architectural background, he never ceases to be drawn in and fascinated by the path of human presence through given spaces, where place and posture alternate in quiet dialogue.
The simplicity of a pose becoming one with the space, or a space that elevates the passing figure—like a love story, a particular gesture, or a body whose meaning remains partly mysterious.
In this forest of signs, art becomes a powerful revealer.
To interpret, to set a scene—as a way of mapping out new possibilities between interior and exterior.
This dimension challenges the boundaries between inside and outside, self and others, order and chaos, fullness and emptiness, image and story.
These dualities leave their marks and shape how we perceive the world.
The artist plays with the setting, sometimes softening it, sometimes magnifying it.
Painting is in constant motion; time doesn’t flow in a straight line.
Cycles and back-and-forth movements between form and subject ripple through the work.
Presence or absence gives space for the imagination—
to unfold a brief one-act story or a triptych told in three movements.
This figurative waltz is enriched by a fleeting sketch, at times heightened by symbolic lines that redefine the tension between opposites, allowing a distinctive clarity to emerge.
The artist frees himself from constraints and opens new paths of representation.
His ambivalent approach—straddling reality and imagination—is deeply human.
Like an intense passion, composition lies at the heart of his practice.
It draws the subject into the canvas, anchoring it in the chosen format.
Like unfinished lacework, between classicism and timelessness,
his work invites us to inhabit these living spaces—echoes of our own wanderings.
To walk, to wander, becomes a suspended moment where we find ourselves only to lose ourselves again—on the winding paths of thought.
And it is this very moment the painter manages to hold within his canvases.
Portrait
Art is not an end in itself. It is a driving force, a catalyst for emotion, and a powerful means of expression.
Alain Rouschmeyer’s message is clear: his paintings are slices of life, vivid takes on the everyday that he captures—or “sketches”—with delight.
The artist builds the story of his life through encounters, travels, and emotions.
He lays his inner world onto the canvas like a visual diary.
Painting captures a moment—real or imagined—it becomes a powerful defiance of death, a shield against forgetting.
Alain Rouschmeyer lets himself be carried by his keen eye, navigating the current of his memories.
Memory clings to places, anchoring lived moments in time. The artist composes in much the same way.
Space is treated with as much presence as the human figure.
More than a backdrop, it is an emotional landscape.
We experience the setting alongside the characters portrayed.
It’s not just visual—we feel the atmosphere, sense the scents, hear the murmurs that seem to rise from the canvas.
Time slows down, and we become witnesses to a fleeting moment the artist manages to preserve.
Genre scenes, moments of life, landscapes, nudes—nothing is off-limits for the artist.
Technical mastery, the texture of materials, the precision of gesture, and the search for aesthetic harmony between body, form, and color are central to his artistic approach.
His discipline and sharp perception stem in part from his background in architecture.
His sensitivity to drawing is a fundamental element of his art.
The quality of his line is remarkable—it’s part of his signature as both painter and architect.
Sketching becomes a near-automatic language, a starting point, a home port from which his stories unfold across the canvas.
He calls on memory—his experience of places, bodies, landscapes…
Architecture naturally finds its place in his work.
It should be read as a living space, a playground, or a ghosted human presence.
The artist’s talent also lies in his ability to tell a story—
to draw us into his intimacy.
His choice of figurative art is deliberate; it offers familiar landmarks and rare entry points for identification in a contemporary art world often dominated by abstraction.
The artist sets the stage, creates an atmosphere, then invites us to imagine what comes next.
Objects take on new meaning through his hand—they become contemporary totems.
An empty chair, a pair of shoes—enough to suggest the ghostly presence of a man or woman we can almost hear behind the painting.
A music of the everyday runs through his compositions like a melody—nostalgic, sensual, or uplifting.
A female figure appears again and again in his paintings.
Is she a muse? A vestal guarding the artist’s inner flame?
Alain Rouschmeyer paints with the hands of a maker, the eye of a poet, and a heart in sync with the beauty that surrounds us.
He explores and reinterprets classic themes—such as the bather, so dear to the Impressionists, or the chair, a favorite motif of the avant-garde.
Nothing is left to chance in his paintings.
What appears spontaneous in composition is the result of meticulous observation and aesthetic research.
The artist moves us through his sensitivity and poetic view of the world.
His painting is generous, deeply nourished.
His art is an invitation to seize the day.
Andréas Alberti – Author, art critic, and journalist – June 2022
Acrylics, Oils, Drawings, Watercolors…
“The artist explores the hidden dimension of daily life, one that keeps calling to us like a jazz melody or the warmth of the blues.”
My Story…
My father worked from home, settled in part of the living room to better receive his clients.
His workspace consisted of a rather ordinary desk—almost clinical in appearance—with two visitor chairs and a corner return that created just enough distance from the large drawing board facing the wall.
Between the adjustable lamps, the screw-top stool, and the monstrous wheeled armchair, the whole setup stood close to the door, resembling some kind of infernal machine.
Depending on the moment of my intrusion, I would find my father either seated and focused at his desk, or perched on his stool, elbows resting on that vast slanted drawing board.
The desk and the drawing board offered me the perfect observer’s position, with a very particular angle of view—my chin always level with the tabletop.
From there, I could watch his movements: broad, precise, and elegant, holding either a mechanical pencil or a graphos pen that looked almost like a technical contraption.
If I stood on tiptoe and gained a few centimeters, I could glimpse a sweeping, low-angle perspective of his work.
I shifted between watching the fine tip of his tool glide across the surface and glimpsing the distorted result taking shape.
I was fascinated by the scene unfolding before me—one that changed with each of my positions and the sheets darkening with graphite or ink.
The rhythm of his gestures seemed to echo his breathing, and I never tired of watching his hands, his work, and his face, endlessly focused.
Time and again, I would pester my father to try one of his tools.
I felt a deep, undefined desire to rest my cheek on the table and replicate what I had just seen.
His answers were firm and negative, replacing the gentleness with which he allowed me to watch in reverent silence the dance of his wrist.
I was saddened by his refusals, yet my mind remained full of images and... read more
le croquis… travail préparatoire
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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”
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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
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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
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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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