A biography on Paul Welsch (Paul Welsch or poetic realism in painting) was published by Jérôme Do. Bentzinger editor.
"This book retraces for the first time the career of the painter Paul Welsch (1889-1954).
Trained at the schools of Strasbourg and Munich, the latter quickly found himself in Paris where, alongside studies at Paris Institute of Political Science, he followed Maurice Denis's classes who convinced him to devote his life to painting. Despite his great involvement in Strasbourg artistic life, notably through his membership of the "Groupe de Mai", he settled permanently in the Capital at the end of the First World War. He exhibited regularly at the Salons d'Automne and the Tuileries. His painting, inspired by Cézanne, is attentive to the School of Paris: first eventful then geometric and colourful, it soon claims a very personal sobriety of shapes and hues, full of poetry; it will go on softening, as if calmed after the trials of the Second War. Paul Welsch was also largely devoted to different types of engravings and book illustrations.
The author went back to the main places painted by the artist. He retraced step by step the stages of a life exclusively devoted to art through archives and works often unknown to the public.
Museums with one or more works by Paul Welsch : National Museum of Modern Art in Paris (Beaubourg), Fine Arts Museum in La Rochelle, Regional Museum in Epinal, Calvet Museum in Avignon, Albert André Museum in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Museum of Art and History of Belfort, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg, Georges Garret Museum of Vesoul, Historical Museum of Haguenau, Unterlinden Museum of Colmar, National House of Artists of Nogent-sur-Marne."