Ren-Yves Creston (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ren-Yves Creston (25 October 1898 - 30 May 1964), born Ren Pierre Joseph Creston, was a Breton artist, designer and ethnographer who founded the Breton nationalist art movement Seiz Breur. During World War II he was active in the French Resistance. Born in Saint-Nazaire, Creston studied art there and at Ancenis, followed by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nantes and Paris. In 1923, he was one of the founders with Jeanne Malivel and his wife Suzanne Creston, of the Unvaniezh Seiz Breur (Union of Seven Brothers), which united dozens of Breton artists and designers in a movement to create a distinctive Breton avant-garde style. Creston participated in the decoration of the Pavilion of Brittany at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925. Creston and Malivel also collaborated on furniture designs shown there. After the early death of Jeanne Malivel in 1926, he became the principal coordinator of Seiz Breur until the end of 1944.