Jean-Pierre Laurens

Jean-Pierre Laurens (18 March 1875, Paris – 23 April 1932, Fontenay-aux-Roses) was a French painter; primarily of figures and portraits.

His older brother, Paul Albert Laurens also became an artist,[1] and he was married to the sculptor, Yvonne Diéterle.

[2] Shortly after the beginning of World War I, he received a bullet wound to the leg and was taken prisoner near Rocquigny.

In September, 1914, he was transferred to the prison camp at Wittenberg, south of Berlin, where he made sketches of the harsh conditions and the typhus epidemic that ravaged the camp.

He managed to preserve his drawings and they were published as Prisonniers de guerre.