Abraham Mintchine

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Abraham Mintchine ( Ukrainian Абраха́м Мі́нчин ; * 23 March July / 4 April  1898 greg. In Kiev , Kyiv Governorate / Russian Empire ; † April 25, 1931 in La Garde , France ) was a Ukrainian painter of Jewish descent.

biography

Mintchine was born in 1898 in Kiev, which was part of the Russian Empire at the time. From 1911 he went to a Kiev goldsmith's apprenticeship, who noticed his talent for painting and encouraged him. He studied in Kiev from 1914 after he was admitted to the art college there on the recommendation of the poet Samuil Marschak and emigrated to Berlin in 1923 to work as a set designer in the Jewish theater . A first exhibition of his pictures took place in Berlin in 1925, the style of the paintings on display was very similar to the style of Cubism . In 1926 he moved penniless to Paris and joined a group of emigrated Russian and Polish artists of Jewish origin. Also Marc Chagall was one of his friends. In 1928 his wife Sonia gave birth to daughter Irene. His first solo exhibition was in 1929 at the Alice Manteau gallery in Paris. The famous art dealer René Gimpel bought a significant number of his paintings, so that Mintchine became financially independent and could devote himself entirely to painting. Mintchine worked a lot, especially from 1929, in Provence with, among others, Othon Friesz . He died on April 25, 1931 (he suffered from heart and tuberculosis) after a heart attack in La Garde near Toulon .

Fille de Louise Manteau, oil on canvas

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Portrait of an Artist as Harlequin

All of his surviving works date from the last six years of his life between 1926 and 1931. Mintchine's paintings are exhibited in the following museums:

  • France: Grenoble, Aups, Niort; Paris (Museum of Jewish Art)
  • Italy: Pisa
  • United Kingdom: Ben Uri Gallery and Tate, London and Leicester
  • Russia: Tomsk
  • USA: Toledo
  • Israel: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ein Harrod

literature

  • René Gimpel: Diary of an Art Dealer. new edition, Hamish Hamilton, London 1986, ISBN 0-241-11761-5
  • Massimo Di Veroli: Abraham Mintchine 1898–1931. Bergame, Galleria Lorenzelli, 1989, 63 pp.

Web links

Commons : Abraham Mintchine  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography of Abraham Mintchine , accessed May 14, 2015
  2. ↑ artist biography Abraham Mintchine on tate.org.uk , accessed on May 14, 2015
  3. ^ Jewish Artists: Signatures and Monograms by John Castagno , accessed May 14, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Abraham Mintchine, Stadtbilder: Paris-Toulon-Colliour, Galerie Di Veroli, on perspectives-ukrainiennes.org , accessed on May 15, 2015
  5. ^ Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) , accessed May 14, 2015
  6. ↑ artist biography Abraham Mintchine on tate.org.uk , accessed on May 14, 2015
  7. ^ Abraham Mintchine website , accessed May 14, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Mintchine, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мі́нчин, Абраха́м (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1931
Place of death La Garde , France