Jean Volang

French (1921-2005)

Jean Volang, born in 1921, the second of fourteen sons, studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Hanoi, and went on to teach there. He won the “Grand Prix du Salon Unique d’Indochine” in 1943. In 1946 he became a political prisoner of the first Ho Chi Minh regime but escaped to Hong Kong where for three years he continued his work and study. In 1949 he moved to Paris and embraced the artistic trends of the School of Paris.