Bernard Lorjou (September 9, 1908 – January 26, 1986) was a French painter of Expressionism and a founding member of the anti-abstract art Group "L'homme Témoin". Born of a worker's family in Blois, Touraine, France. At the age of fourteen he painted a portrait of his parents. A self-taught artist, he acquired great technical skill as a painter while engaged in another occupation which he later abandoned. He has participated in the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Independants, and the Salon des Tuileries. In 1948 he shared the Prix de la Critique with Bernard Buffet. That same year he participated in an exhibition at the Galerie du Bac called Hommes-Temoins, affirming the belief that art should be figurative and should derive its inspiration from the realities of life. He has also exhibited at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris and in the United States under the sponsorship of Georges Wildenstein. In 1957 he erected a makeshift shack on the Esplanade des Invalides, where he exhibited his large canvases and distributed a violent manifesto on art. He repeated his unusual type of exhibition in a shack erected in the Parc des Jeux at the Brussels Fair. Lorjou is represented in the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris and in other French and foreign collections. ...
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