Jacques Germain was, together with Georges Matheiu, Vieira da Silva and Riopelle, an internationally recognized member of Lyrical Abstraction, a French group of artists of the post-war period who are considered to be the forerunners and representatives of Informel. As a young art student he was a student of Fernand Léger at the Academie Moderne in Paris (1930), Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers at the Bauhaus in Dessau (1931-1932) and Willi Baumeister at the Städelschule in Frankfurt (1932-1933). Influenced by his teachers, Jacques Germain quickly discovered abstract painting, which was initially dominated by geometric forms but became increasingly gestural after the Second World War. From 1947 onwards, he regularly participated in international exhibitions alongside artists such as Arp, Hartung, Mathieu, Wols, Kandinsky and Silva. His works are also represented in museums in Paris, Bremen, Bergen and Oslo. Die Composition entspricht seinem Stil der 50er und 60 Jahre: Durch viele kleine Pinselstriche mit kräftigen Farben, die sich durch Schabrichtungen zu verbinden scheinen, entsteht eine mosaikartige Struktur, die sich nach rechts oben zu orientieren scheint. Durch den hohen Weißanteil werden die blauen Farben abgemildert und das Werk strahlt Bewegung und Fröhlichkeit aus.