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Joseph Steib, peintre résistant

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Joseph Steib, resistance painter – 52-minute version

A modest employee of the Mulhouse water department, a discreet man in fragile health, Joseph Steib (1898-1966) clandestinely painted a fierce work against Nazism during the Second World War.

The Salon des rêves is the name given to the series of 57 paintings painted in his kitchen, between 1940 and 1945. A naive but radical vision, full of anger and despair, hallucinatory and conjuratory: a direct attack on the figure of Hitler.

Steib painted the occupation of his region by the Nazis, and from 1940, premonitory scenes of Liberation. But above all, he created paintings in which he ridiculed Hitler, depicted hanging from a tree or burning in hell.

The paintings of the Salon des rêves were exhibited only once to the public, in 1945. Then it was completely forgotten, the dispersion of the work after his death… until its recent discovery and its exhibition in a few prestigious museums.

With the participation of:
François Pétry, historian and biographer of Joseph Steib
Marie Pesenti-Irrmann, psychoanalyst
Klaus Gallwitz, art historian and curator
Alexander Roob, artist and professor of graphic art
Fabrice Hergott, director of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Sarkis, artist
Klaus Stöber, artist