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Jean-François Comment was born in Porrentruy in 1919. After completing his secondary school education, he attended the University of Basel and the Basel School of Arts and Crafts between 1938 and 1944, graduating with a drawing teacher’s diploma. In 1948, together with other artists from Basel, he founded the group Kreis 48 [48 Circle] which made its first public appearance at the Kunsthalle Basel in 1950. That same year, together with Marcel Joray and Pierre-Olivier Walzer, Comment founded the Institut Jurassien des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts [Jura Institute for Science, Literature and the Arts]. He showed his works in numerous exhibitions, such as at the Kunstmuseum Thun (1965), Bellelay Abbey (1974) and the Musée jurassien des Beaux-Arts in Moutier (1999). He received various prizes and awards, including the Kiefer-Hablitzel-Scholarship in 1953, and the Preis für Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft des Kantons Jura [Prize for Art, Literature and Science] of the Canton of Jura in 1986. Comment died in Porrentruy in 2002.
Jean-François Comment was born in Porrentruy in 1919. After completing his secondary school education, he attended the University of Basel and the Basel School of Arts and Crafts between 1938 and 1944, graduating with a drawing teacher’s diploma. In 1948, together with other artists from Basel, he founded the group Kreis 48 [48 Circle] which made its first public appearance at the Kunsthalle Basel in 1950. That same year, together with Marcel Joray and Pierre-Olivier Walzer, Comment founded the Institut Jurassien des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts [Jura Institute for Science, Literature and the Arts]. He showed his works in numerous exhibitions, such as at the Kunstmuseum Thun (1965), Bellelay Abbey (1974) and the Musée jurassien des Beaux-Arts in Moutier (1999). He received various prizes and awards, including the Kiefer-Hablitzel-Scholarship in 1953, and the Preis für Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft des Kantons Jura [Prize for Art, Literature and Science] of the Canton of Jura in 1986. Comment died in Porrentruy in 2002.
