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.
1943
Historical landmarks
17 July 1942 to 3 February
Battle of Stalingrad
16-17 December
Airstrike on Bois de Coroy near Saint-Ouen
Jean Delpech’s career
Summer
Participation in a holiday camp in Mer (Loir-et-Cher) and visit to Chambord. Leaves the “Travail et Joie” youth centre at the end of the summer. Works at the reception and screening centre for young offenders in Rue de Madrid in Paris. His war diary mentions being shadowed by the Gestapo due to his clandestine activities
Late 1943
States in his war diary that he has gone underground and taken refuge with the lithographer Mourlot, where he creates false papers
Works by Jean Delpech
Paris occupé
1944
La cité
1943https://collectionjeandelpech.musee-armee.fr/en/chronology/1943