Né à Paris en 1923, FRANÇOIS JACQUEMIN commence très jeune ses études de peinture, successivement dans les Ateliers de Marie Laurencin, Labourer et Mac Avoy. Après avoir participé à la Résistance et été déporté à Auschwitz et Buchenwald, il revient en 1945. Il s’installe à <<la Ruche>> et travaille dans l’environment de peintres parmi lesquels: Paul Colomb, Roger-Durand, Fin, de Gallard, Mauhin, Mouly, Rebeyrolles et bien autres. À partir de 1946, François Jacquemin participe à nombreux salons: la Jeune Peintre, le Salon de Mai, les Artistes Indépendants, le Salon d’Automne dont il devient sociétaire en 1948. En 1949-1950, il obtient une bourse aux prix National remporte le prix <<Général Béthouard>>. Une de ses toiles sur l’Univers Concentrationnaire, remarquée par Jean Cassou en 1950 a été acquise par le Musée d’Art Moderne cette année là. De nombreuses oeuvres appartiennent à des Musées à Paris, Vienne, Besançon, Metz, etc. D’être resté pendant une longue période sans peindre n’a pas empèché François Jacquemin de laisser une oeuvre important et varié. Born in Paris in 1923, FRANÇOIS JACQUEMIN began his study of art at a very early age, in the ateliers of Marie Laurencin, then that of Labourer and later Mac Avoy. Having participated in the French Resistance during the Second World War, Jacquemin returned to France in 1945 from his interment in concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He settled into “La Ruche” working and mingling with a number of well known painters including Paul Colomb, Roger-Durand, Fin, de Gallard, Mauhin, Mouly, and Rebeyrolles. Beginning in 1946, Jacquemin participated in a number of exhibitions: The Young Painter, the May Salon, the Independant Artist, and the Autumn Salon of which he became a member in 1948. From 1949-1950, he had a National Fellowship and was awarded the General Béthouard Prize. A long period without painting while he pursued business interests did not prevent François Jacquemin from leaving a large and comprehensive body of work representing a variety of styles and media. One of his canvases on the subject of the Universe of the Concentration Camp, was noticed by Jean Cassou in 1950 and acquired by the Musée d’Art Moderne that year. A number of Jacquemin’s works are owned by museum in Paris, Vienna, Besançon, Metz, etc. François Jacquemin spent six weeks in Spartanburg in 1977 with a one-man exhibit at The Arts Center which later traveled to The somethingsoemthing Museum of Art in Savannah, GA and the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC.