Jacques Germain was a French painter and a major figure in the Abstraction Lyrique group in post-war Paris. He studied at the Académie Moderne in 1931 under Fernand Léger and later worked with Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus in 1932.

During the Second World War, he worked in advertising in Paris and spent three years as a prisoner. He first exhibited his work in 1947 at the Salon des Surindépendants.

By the 1950s, Germain was exploring abstraction and developed his own style alongside artists such as Mathieu, Bryen, Riopelle and Lanskoy. He achieved international recognition and exhibited widely throughout his career.