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| birth_name = Mojżesz Kisling
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| birth_place = [[Kraków]], [[Grand Duchy of Cracow]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
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| death_date = 1953 (aged 63)
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'''Moïse Kisling''', born '''Mojżesz Kisling''' (January 22, 1891 – April 29, 1953), was a Polish-born French painter.<ref>''Pologne'' Michelin, - 2009 "Kisling de Montparnasse - Né dans une famille juive à Cracovie, Moïse Kisling (1891-1953) fut l'élève de "</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sachs|first=Harvey|url=https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=44Sl_52ePdYC&pg=PA268|title=Rubinstein: A Life|date=1995|publisher=Grove Press|year=|isbn=978-0-8021-1579-9|location=|pages=268|language=en}}</ref> He moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 19, and became a French citizen in 1915, after serving and being wounded with the [[French Foreign Legion]] in [[World War I]]. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, after the fall of France, and returned there in 1946.
'''Moïse Kisling''', born '''Mojżesz Kisling''' (January 22, 1891 – April 29, 1953), was a Polish-born French painter.<ref>''Pologne'' Michelin, - 2009 "Kisling de Montparnasse - Né dans une famille juive à Cracovie, Moïse Kisling (1891-1953) fut l'élève de "</ref> He moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 19, and became a French citizen in 1915, after serving and being wounded with the [[French Foreign Legion]] in [[World War I]]. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, after the fall of France, and returned there in 1946.


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Born in [[Kraków]], [[Austria-Hungary]], he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków. His teachers encouraged the young man to go to [[Paris]], [[France]], considered the international center for artistic creativity in the early 20th century.
Born in [[Kraków]], [[Austria-Hungary]] on January 22, 1891. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow with [[Józef Pankiewicz|Jozef Pankiewicz]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=1953-04-30|title=MOISE KISLING, 62, PARIS ARTIST, DIES; Associate of Cocteau, Picasso and Modigliani, Was Known for Portraits of Women|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/04/30/84398824.html?pageNumber=31|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-13|website=The New York Times, Time Machine|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Artist Biography for Moise Kisling|url=https://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Moise_Maurice_Kisling/103129/Moise_Maurice_Kisling.aspx|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-13|website=Askart.com}}</ref>

His teachers encouraged the young man to go to [[Paris]], [[France]], considered the international center for artistic creativity in the early 20th century. In 1910, Kisling moved to [[Montmartre]] in Paris, and a few years later to [[Montparnasse]]; he joined an émigré community made up of artists from eastern Europe as well as Americans and British.<ref name=":0" /> Most of the French kept to themselves, although the artistic community was international.

He was married to Renée Kisling and together they had two sons, Guy and Jean Kisling.{{When|date=September 2020}}<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Meckier|first=Jerome|url=https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=t8zaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA226|title=Aldous Huxley Annual: Volume 19 (2019)|date=2020-09-11|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=978-3-643-91250-3|language=en}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
[[File:Moïse Kisling, 1913, Nu sur un divan noir, oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, published in Montjolie, 1914.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Moïse Kisling, 1913, ''Nu sur un divan noir'', oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, published in Montjoie, 1914]]
[[File:Moïse Kisling, 1913, Nu sur un divan noir, oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, published in Montjolie, 1914.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Moïse Kisling, 1913, ''Nu sur un divan noir'', oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, published in Montjoie, 1914]]
In 1910, Kisling moved to [[Montmartre]] in Paris, and a few years later to [[Montparnasse]]; he joined an émigré community made up of artists from eastern Europe as well as Americans and British. Most of the French kept to themselves, although the artistic community was international.

At the outbreak of [[World War I]], he volunteered for service in the [[French Foreign Legion]]. After being seriously wounded in 1915 in the [[Battle of the Somme]], he was awarded French citizenship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500027290|title=ULAN Full Record Display, Kisling, Moïse|website=Getty Research|publisher=The J. Paul Getty Trust|access-date=2017-07-16}}</ref>
At the outbreak of [[World War I]], he volunteered for service in the [[French Foreign Legion]]. After being seriously wounded in 1915 in the [[Battle of the Somme]], he was awarded French citizenship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500027290|title=ULAN Full Record Display, Kisling, Moïse|website=Getty Research|publisher=The J. Paul Getty Trust|access-date=2017-07-16}}</ref>


Kisling lived and worked in Montparnasse, where he was part of its renowned artistic community. For a short time he lived in the [[Bateau-Lavoir]] in Montmartre, and in 1911–12 spent nearly a year at [[Céret]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}
Kisling lived and worked in Montparnasse, where he was part of its renowned artistic community. For a short time he lived in the [[Bateau-Lavoir]] in Montmartre, and in 1911–12 spent nearly a year at [[Céret]].


[[File:Moïse Kisling, c.1920, Le pêcheur (The Fisherman), oil on canvas, 82 x 61.7 cm, private collection.jpg|thumb|200px|Moïse Kisling, c.1920, ''Le pêcheur'' (''The Fisherman''), oil on canvas, 82 x 61.7 cm, private collection]]
In 1913 he returned to Montparnasse, where he took a studio and lived for the next 27 years. The artists [[Jules Pascin]] and later [[Amedeo Modigliani]] lived in the same building. He became close friends with many of his contemporaries, including Modigliani, who painted a portrait of him in 1916 (in the collection of the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris]]). His style in painting landscapes is similar to that of [[Marc Chagall]]. A master at depicting the female body, his surreal nudes and portraits earned him the widest acclaim.
In 1913 he returned to Montparnasse, where he took a studio and lived for the next 27 years. The artists [[Jules Pascin]] and later [[Amedeo Modigliani]] lived in the same building. He became close friends with many of his contemporaries, including Modigliani, who painted a portrait of him in 1916 (in the collection of the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris]]). His style in painting landscapes is similar to that of [[Marc Chagall]]. A master at depicting the female body, his surreal nudes and portraits earned him the widest acclaim.


Kisling volunteered for army service again in 1940 during World War II, although he was 49. When the French Army was discharged at the time of the surrender to the Germans, Kisling emigrated to the United States. He rightly feared for his safety as a Jew in [[occupied France]]. He exhibited in [[New York City]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]. He settled in [[Southern California]], and had his first art exhibition there in 1942.<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=rvIxAQAAIAAJ&q|title=California Arts & Architecture|date=1942|publisher=J.D. Entenza|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=13|language=en}}</ref> The Kinsling family lived next door to [[Aldous Huxley]] and his family in Southern California,<ref name=":1" /> where they stayed there until 1946.
Kisling volunteered for army service again in 1940 during World War II, although he was 49. When the French Army was discharged at the time of the surrender to the Germans, Kisling emigrated to the United States. He rightly feared for his safety as a Jew in [[occupied France]]. He exhibited in [[New York City]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]. He settled in [[California]], where he lived until 1946.

Under the [[Vichy government]], certain critics suggested too many foreigners, especially Jews, were diminishing French traditions.<ref>Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt, ''Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy,'' p. 44 (2011) Quote: "..the prominence of foreign Jewish artists such as [[Chaim Soutine]], [[Michel Kikoine]], and Moïse Kisling. As a result, certain art critics such as [[Camille Mauclair]] claimed that foreign artists were contaminating the French artistic tradition."</ref> Their comments were part of a rise in [[anti-Semitism]] during the German occupation, resulting in French cooperation in the deportation and deaths of tens of thousands of foreign and French Jews in concentration camps.


Kisling returned to France after the war and defeat of Germany. Moïse Kisling died in [[Sanary-sur-Mer]], [[Var (département)|Var]], [[Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur]], France on April 29, 1953. A residential street in the town is named after him.
Under the [[Vichy government]], certain critics suggested too many foreigners, especially Jews, were diminishing French traditions.<ref>Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt, ''Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy,'' p. 44 (2011) Quote: "..the prominence of foreign Jewish artists such as [[Chaim Soutine]], [[Michel Kikoine]], and Moïse Kisling. As a result, certain art critics such as [[Camille Mauclair]] claimed that foreign artists were contaminating the French artistic tradition."</ref> Their comments were part of a rise in [[anti-Semitism]] during the German occupation, resulting in French cooperation in the deportation and deaths of tens of thousands of foreign and French Jews in concentration camps. Kisling returned to France after the war and defeat of Germany.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}


==Paintings==
== Death and legacy ==
[[:w:fr:Pâquerette (actrice)|Pâquerette]] and [[Pablo Picasso]] enjoying themselves at [[Café de la Rotonde]] in Paris. Photograph by [[Jean Cocteau]], 12 August 1916]
[[File:Pablo-Picasso-Moise-Kisling-Paquerette-Cafe-la-Rotonde-paris-1916.jpg|thumb|300px|Moïse Kisling, [[:w:fr:Pâquerette (actrice)|Pâquerette]] and [[Pablo Picasso]] enjoying themselves at [[Café de la Rotonde]] in Paris. Photograph by [[Jean Cocteau]], 12 August 1916]]
Moïse Kisling died in [[Sanary-sur-Mer]], [[Var (département)|Var]], [[Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur]], France on April 29, 1953. A residential street in the town is named after him.


A large collection of Kisling's works is held by the [[Musée du Petit Palais]] in [[Geneva, Switzerland]]. Some of his paintings:
His work is in various public museum collections, including at the [[Harvard Art Museums]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Moise Kisling, Krakow Poland 1891 - 1953 Sanary-sur-Mer, France|url=https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/26895|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-12|website=Harvard Art Museums|language=en}}</ref> [[British Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Moïse Kisling|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG33863|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-12|website=Collections Online, British Museum}}</ref> the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Boy in Blue, ca. 1928|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489636|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-12|website=The Met}}</ref> [[Tokyo Fuji Art Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Flowers, Moïse Kisling|url=https://www.fujibi.or.jp/en/our-collection/profile-of-works.html?work_id=1254|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-12|website=Tokyo Fuji Art Museum|language=en}}</ref> the [[Israel Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Moise Kisling|url=https://www.imj.org.il/en/artistec/moise-kisling|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-12|website=The Israel Museum, Jerusalem|language=en}}</ref> Ikeda 20 Seiki Museum,<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Permanent collection|url=https://www.nichireki.co.jp/ikeda/collection2.html?lang=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Ikeda 20 Seiki Museum}}</ref> amongst others. A large collection of Kisling's works is held by the [[Musée du Petit Palais]] in [[Geneva, Switzerland]].
* ''Nu assis'' ([[Alice Prin|Kiki de Montparnasse]])
* ''Woman in black dress'', [[National Museum of Serbia]]
* ''Portrait de Madeleine Lebeau''
* ''Woman in a Shawl''
* ''Paysage de Sanary''
* ''Spanish Woman''
* ''Jeune femme blonde''
* ''Femme nue assise''
* ''Nu allongé''
* ''Port de Tamaris''
* ''Portrait de jeune fille brune''
* ''Buste nu couché''
* ''Woman in an Interior''
* ''La sieste à Saint-Tropez, autoportrait avec Renée''


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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File:Moise Kisling, 1916, La Sieste à Saint-Tropez, Kisling avec Renée.jpg|Moïse Kisling, 1916, ''La Sieste à Saint-Tropez'' (Kisling with Renée)
File:Moise Kisling, 1916, La Sieste à Saint-Tropez, Kisling avec Renée.jpg|Moïse Kisling, 1916, ''La Sieste à Saint-Tropez'' (Kisling with Renée)
File:Moïse Kisling, Portrait du peintre (Autoportrait), oil on canvas, 81.3 x 60.3 cm, private collection.jpg|Moïse Kisling, ''Portrait du peintre (Autoportrait)'', oil on canvas, 81.3 x 60.3&nbsp;cm, private collection. Published in ''Action: Cahiers Individualistes de Philosophie et d’art'', July 1920
File:Moïse Kisling, Portrait du peintre (Autoportrait), oil on canvas, 81.3 x 60.3 cm, private collection.jpg|Moïse Kisling, ''Portrait du peintre (Autoportrait)'', oil on canvas, 81.3 x 60.3&nbsp;cm, private collection. Published in ''Action: Cahiers Individualistes de Philosophie et d’art'', July 1920
File:Moïse Kisling, c.1920, Le pêcheur (The Fisherman), oil on canvas, 82 x 61.7 cm, private collection.jpg|Moïse Kisling, c.1920, ''Le pêcheur'' (''The Fisherman''), oil on canvas, 82 x 61.7 cm, private collection
File:Moise Kisling, Nature morte. Reproduced in André Salmon, L'Art Vivant, Artistes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, 1920.jpg|Moïse Kisling, ''Nature morte'', before 1920. Reproduced in [[André Salmon]], ''L'Art Vivant'', Artistes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, 1920 (black and white photograph)
File:Moise Kisling, Nature morte. Reproduced in André Salmon, L'Art Vivant, Artistes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, 1920.jpg|Moïse Kisling, ''Nature morte'', before 1920. Reproduced in [[André Salmon]], ''L'Art Vivant'', Artistes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, 1920 (black and white photograph)
File:Moïse Kisling, 1921, Nu assis, oil on canvas, private collection.jpg|Moïse Kisling, 1921, ''Nu assis'', oil on canvas, private collection, portrait of [[Alice Prin|Kiki de Montparnasse]]
File:Moïse Kisling, 1921, Nu assis, oil on canvas, private collection.jpg|Moïse Kisling, 1921, ''Nu assis'', oil on canvas, private collection
File:Moïse Kisling, Nature morte (Still Life), Action, Cahiers Individualistes De Philosophie Et D’art, August 1921.jpg|Moïse Kisling, ''Nature morte (Still Life)'', published in Action, Cahiers Individualistes De Philosophie Et D’art, August 1921
File:Moïse Kisling, Nature morte (Still Life), Action, Cahiers Individualistes De Philosophie Et D’art, August 1921.jpg|Moïse Kisling, ''Nature morte (Still Life)'', published in Action, Cahiers Individualistes De Philosophie Et D’art, August 1921
File:Portrait of Rénée Kisling.jpg|Moïse Kisling, ''Portrait of Rénée Kisling''
File:Portrait of Rénée Kisling.jpg|Moïse Kisling, ''Portrait of Rénée Kisling''
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Moïse Kisling}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Moïse Kisling}}
* {{Find a Grave|id=8998063|name=}}
* [http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchT.aspx?V=CSearchT&SID=2K1KTSJ571WQB&E=S_2K1KTSJ571WQB&NoR=500&New=T Agence photo de la Réunion des musées nationaux RMN]
* [http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchT.aspx?V=CSearchT&SID=2K1KTSJ571WQB&E=S_2K1KTSJ571WQB&NoR=500&New=T Agence photo de la Réunion des musées nationaux RMN]
* {{FrenchSculptureCensus}}
* {{FrenchSculptureCensus}}

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Moïse Kisling
Moïse Kisling, c.1916
Born
Mojżesz Kisling

1891
Died1953 (aged 63)
NationalityPolish, French
Known forPainting

Moïse Kisling, born Mojżesz Kisling (January 22, 1891 – April 29, 1953), was a Polish-born French painter.[1] He moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 19, and became a French citizen in 1915, after serving and being wounded with the French Foreign Legion in World War I. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, after the fall of France, and returned there in 1946.

Early life and education

Born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków. His teachers encouraged the young man to go to Paris, France, considered the international center for artistic creativity in the early 20th century.

Career

Moïse Kisling, 1913, Nu sur un divan noir, oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, published in Montjoie, 1914

In 1910, Kisling moved to Montmartre in Paris, and a few years later to Montparnasse; he joined an émigré community made up of artists from eastern Europe as well as Americans and British. Most of the French kept to themselves, although the artistic community was international.

At the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered for service in the French Foreign Legion. After being seriously wounded in 1915 in the Battle of the Somme, he was awarded French citizenship.[2]

Kisling lived and worked in Montparnasse, where he was part of its renowned artistic community. For a short time he lived in the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre, and in 1911–12 spent nearly a year at Céret.

Moïse Kisling, c.1920, Le pêcheur (The Fisherman), oil on canvas, 82 x 61.7 cm, private collection

In 1913 he returned to Montparnasse, where he took a studio and lived for the next 27 years. The artists Jules Pascin and later Amedeo Modigliani lived in the same building. He became close friends with many of his contemporaries, including Modigliani, who painted a portrait of him in 1916 (in the collection of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris). His style in painting landscapes is similar to that of Marc Chagall. A master at depicting the female body, his surreal nudes and portraits earned him the widest acclaim.

Kisling volunteered for army service again in 1940 during World War II, although he was 49. When the French Army was discharged at the time of the surrender to the Germans, Kisling emigrated to the United States. He rightly feared for his safety as a Jew in occupied France. He exhibited in New York City and Washington. He settled in California, where he lived until 1946.

Under the Vichy government, certain critics suggested too many foreigners, especially Jews, were diminishing French traditions.[3] Their comments were part of a rise in anti-Semitism during the German occupation, resulting in French cooperation in the deportation and deaths of tens of thousands of foreign and French Jews in concentration camps.

Kisling returned to France after the war and defeat of Germany. Moïse Kisling died in Sanary-sur-Mer, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France on April 29, 1953. A residential street in the town is named after him.

Paintings

Moïse Kisling, Pâquerette and Pablo Picasso enjoying themselves at Café de la Rotonde in Paris. Photograph by Jean Cocteau, 12 August 1916

A large collection of Kisling's works is held by the Musée du Petit Palais in Geneva, Switzerland. Some of his paintings:

  • Nu assis (Kiki de Montparnasse)
  • Woman in black dress, National Museum of Serbia
  • Portrait de Madeleine Lebeau
  • Woman in a Shawl
  • Paysage de Sanary
  • Spanish Woman
  • Jeune femme blonde
  • Femme nue assise
  • Nu allongé
  • Port de Tamaris
  • Portrait de jeune fille brune
  • Buste nu couché
  • Woman in an Interior
  • La sieste à Saint-Tropez, autoportrait avec Renée

Gallery

Commemorative plaque, 29 rue Campagne-Première, Paris, 75014

References

  1. ^ Pologne Michelin, - 2009 "Kisling de Montparnasse - Né dans une famille juive à Cracovie, Moïse Kisling (1891-1953) fut l'élève de "
  2. ^ "ULAN Full Record Display, Kisling, Moïse". Getty Research. The J. Paul Getty Trust. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
  3. ^ Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt, Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy, p. 44 (2011) Quote: "..the prominence of foreign Jewish artists such as Chaim Soutine, Michel Kikoine, and Moïse Kisling. As a result, certain art critics such as Camille Mauclair claimed that foreign artists were contaminating the French artistic tradition."

External links