Jean-Pierre Rene Capron (August 4, 1921 – July 2, 1997)[1] was a French painter known for creating muted landscapes with a haunting, lonely feeling, yet with a hint of life in the midst of the emptiness.
He studied architecture in Lausanne, Switzerland, then moved to Paris in 1945 where he enrolled at the École des Beaux Arts in the studio of Eugène Narbonne and formed a friendship with Bernard Buffet.
In 1950 Jean-Pierre Capron had his first exhibition in Paris in Maurice Garnier, Visconti Gallery.
In 1952 he won two major national awards in France, which led to a series of regular exhibitions in Paris galleries.
Capron died in 1997, leaving a substantial number of landscape paintings and several portraits.