Jean Auscher
(1896-1950)
Former student of Decorative Arts, he was an infantry officer during the Great War. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1923 and 1925, at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts in 1925, in Georges Petit's gallery in 1926, and at the Salon des Tuileries in 1930 and 1933.
In the second half of the 1920s he provided a visual commentary on the underworld that he describes in the collections of lithographs La Faune des dancings (prefaced by Francis de Miomandre) and Le Baccara (prefaced by Jules Romains), published from his studio. He published drawings in the newspapers Fantasio (in 1926) and Le Rire (in 1927-1928).
He sketched celebrities (Grock, Yvette Guilbert, Lucien Guitry, Louis
Jouvet, Maud Loty, Raquel Meller, Vera Sergine). He also illustrated works by André Haguenauer, Alfred Machard, and Irene Némirovsky.
After the Second World War, he published sketches made during the great trials of the collaborationist French government (Marshal Pétain, Charles Maurras, Pierre Laval) to accompany the reports published by Geo London.