L"Art Sacre

Born Pierre Charles Marie Couturier at Montbrison (Loire). Father Couturier had been a soldier in the Great War, wounded in the foot (1917), and an art student at the Paris Académie de la Grande Chaumière (1919).
From 1926 onward he studied first at the Dominican High School in Saulchoir, Belgium, later, till 1935, in Rome where his studies were frequently interrupted by illness. In 1930 he became a priest. In 1935 his vocation was confirmed in the Saint Honoré Convent at Paris. He spent the years 1940-1945 overseas in the United States and Canada before becoming involved in a very practical way in some of the greatest artistic adventures of the 20th century: Henri Matisse and the Vence Chapel; Le Corbusier and the Notre Dame du Haut; the Notre-Dame de Toute Grace du Plateau d'Assy; and Audincourt.
He died of Myastenia gravis in 1954, mourned over by many of the great 20th century artists.
[edit]Sacred art

From 1936 till 1954 Father Couturier, together with Father Pie-Raymond Régamey, was the chief editor of the review L'Art Sacré that was to become very influential among art critics no longer satisfied with what was considered outdated 19th century church decoration. Father Couturier, who had a thorough practical initiation as an artisan glazier at the Ateliers des Arts Sacrés (1920-1927), was then considering to bring "living" art into the scope of modern church building. With Maurice Denis he had been responsible for the first abstract stained glass windows in the church of Le Raincy built by Auguste Perret in 1923.… (plus d'informations)