Jean-Claude Goldberg

Jean-Claude Goldberg is an artist living and working in Paris, France.  

Jean-Claude Goldberg picked up a pencil when he was 5 years old, started to draw and found that he couldn’t stop. Much has changed in his life since then, but that urge to create has never gone away. 

He was born into a tense world in pre-war Paris in 1939, saw the Nazis invade, was sent to a sheltering Catholic home and from there to an orphanage. He survived, but members of his close family were murdered.

His contact with American soldiers and the promise that America held brought him to New York in his early twenties. He spent ten years there, making a name for himself as an art director during the “Golden Days of Advertising”. He returned to Paris in 1974 with an American wife, an American passport and as the Creative Director of Doyle Dane Bernbach/Paris, the newest branch of the New York agency.

But Jean-Claude never seized to be an artist, and over the years his commitment to the vision and skill of a painter only grew deeper. Subject matter emerges from daily life. He sees individual strength and purpose everywhere from the wind-blown Jewish men facing the elements on the winter streets of Brooklyn to the connection between a discarded and downtrodden people and the soft drink cans lying crushed in the city streets. 

Jean-Claude Goldberg’s work has an extraordinary human quality, literally and metaphorically. He tells stories with his brushes and pens, tales of the human and environmental condition. His work has been shown in private exhibits in Paris, New York, and Massachusetts where he resided and painted for 15 years until 2020 when he returned to Paris, yet again.

Jean-Claude Goldberg paints the pictures from what he sees today and from the stories his mind’s eye captured from long ago.

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