Jacques Schneider

Jacques Schneider is a Luxembourg artist committed to humanistic values.

In 2022, he was named "Knight of the Order of Civil and Military Merit Adolphe de Nassau" by His Royal Highness the Grand Duke.

Raised in a family of mathematicians and photographers, encouraged by his parents to create and to always be true to himself, he was able to express his ideas with confidence from the age of 6 by choosing a chromatic range made up of two colours: orange and blue, a premonitory duo that would mark his life and his creation.

Some thirty years later, it is with the same serenity that he imagines and dreams his life as an artist, thanking the generous transmission he received from his parents: open-mindedness, generosity and love.

Jacques thus creates in this atavism, while respecting his own values such as short circuits, the use of ethical or vegan raw materials with Fairwear or Fairtrade labels.

Whether they are pictorial, sculptural, photographic or textile... his creations are bridges, open doors to the other. Hyphens.

His canvases are often the result of superimposing paints and inks on photographs mounted on cotton; like extensions of a heritage that would become evolving through the successive layers that each generation would bring. Jacques puts his strokes and colours on them: a generous gift commonly called memory.

Through this technique, which is his own, he presents his coloured vision of the landscapes and monuments that surround him as well as the memories of his childhood, such as the family walks in the Luxembourg countryside.

Attached to History and its transmission, his current work with the National Archives opens another perspective on contemporary art and raises questions.

With his tenderness, Jacques offers us a romantic yet lucid reading of European society.

Sharing and creation are the rhythm of his life. His collaborations and partnerships are for him windows on the world; inspired by society, he draws every day and creates pieces every day in order to present to the general public what he has felt... if the inspiration and the idea are lightning fast, then the reflection and the concretization of the works can extend over several months or years.

The bases, the symbols, the forms that he uses show us to what extent living together, building a common future, cordial relations and starting again and again is our destiny... nothing is taken for granted, the extreme fragility of the balance that unites us, must question us on the importance and the role of each one in the creation of a more serene future, with more equity between the peoples.

For the artist, this is the sine qua non condition for approaching a lasting global peace.