Jean Delpech’s career from 1935 to 1950

In 2019, the Musée de l'Armée acquired a collection of over 700 drawings and prints by the artist, providing invaluable evidence of the Second World War: mobilized in 1938 in the Alpine hunters until the end of 1940, the painter, who lived in Paris during the Occupation, produced a quasi-ethnographic work on the war.

1938

Jean Delpech’s career

Exhibition at the Salon of French Artists (n^o.480, Le Repas (The Meal))

15 October

Military service with the 15^th Alpine Hunters Battalion (BCA) quartered in Barcelonnette (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence); promotion to trainee corporal. During his military training, alternation between garrison life and high mountain manoeuvres

Obtainment of an industrial drawing teacher’s certificate

Works by Jean Delpech

Jean DELPECH Wartime works

Jean Delpech’s career from 1935 to 1950

1938