Biography
After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich between 1956 and 1960, Jan Voss settled permanently in Paris. He was a professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1987 to 1992.
A monograph by Yves Michaud on the German painter was published in 2001, and a second by Anne Tronche in 2015. Jan Voss has been the subject of major exhibitions, notably at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque in 2002, at the Palais Synodal de Sens in 2008, at the Museum Arnhem in the Netherlands in 2010, and at the Espace d’art contemporain André Malraux in Colmar in 2021. His works are in the collections of many museums: Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dunkerque, and MNAM – Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others.
