Alice Halicka

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Alice Halicka or Alicja Halicka (* as Alice Rosenblatt, December 20, 1894 in Krakow ; † January 1, 1975 in Paris ) was a French painter and illustrator of Polish origin and wife of the cubist painter Louis Marcoussis . Her work is attributed to the École de Paris .

Life

Alice Halicka, daughter of a Jewish doctor, grew up in Switzerland and Austria. She studied painting with Józef Pankiewicz , Leon Wyczółkowski and Wojciech Weiss in the private art school for women in Krakow, directed by Maria Niedzielska. After a short stay in Munich, she moved to Paris in 1912, where she continued her studies under Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson and with Fernand Cormon . She met Louis Marcoussis, whom she married in 1913. Through him she came into the circle of Cubists, to which she belonged until 1921. At an exhibition in 1914 in the Salon des Indépendants , Guillaume Apollinaire mentioned her Cubist still lifes . Marcoussis served in the army during World War I ; she fled to Normandy and devoted herself to painting. On his return he advised her against painting because he was of the opinion that a cubist would be rich in the family. Halicka banned or destroyed part of her paintings, changed her style and broke away from Cubism. Through the mediation of Raoul Dufy , she worked in 1919 for Bianchini, a silk manufacturer in Lyon .

Louis Marcoussis: La Toilette de la Mariee (1934)

In 1921 Halicka traveled to Poland and painted her motifs, which were devoted to everyday life in the Jewish quarter in Krakow, in the style of Polish Post-Impressionism . In 1922 the couple's only child, Madeleine (Malène), was born. In 1925 she illustrated several books, for example Enfantines by Valéry Larbaud and Les Enfants du Ghetto by Israel Zangwill . Between 1935 and 1937 she attended three times New York, where she attended a promotional event for 1935 Helena Rubinstein participated and 1937 in the decoration and costumes for Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Baiser de la Fée , which in the Metropolitan Opera under the choreography of George Balanchine listed has been.

The family moved to Cusset near Vichy in 1939 , where Louis Marcoussis died in 1941. During the Second World War Halicka changed her place of residence regularly and lived, for example, in Marseille, Vienna and Chamonix. After the end of the war, she returned to Paris in 1945, exhibited in the Galerie de l'Elysée on the subject of "Paris", wrote her autobiography Here (Souvenirs) in 1946 and wrote the column A l'ombre du Bateau for Les Nouvelles Littéraires . Lavoir ( In the shadow of the Bateau-Lavoir ). The following years were marked by trips to exhibitions of her works within Europe, to India, where she lived for three months, to the United States and the USSR. Her painting style was now closer to surrealism .

Alice Halicka died in Paris in 1975 and was buried in Vichy.

plant

Alice Halicka's work is characterized by a strict construction; it includes numerous topics from architecture. Her oil paintings show landscapes and cities as well as still lifes; there are also decorative works on fabric, screens for Helena Rubinstein, collages, stage sets for ballets, watercolors, drawings, engravings and illustrations for literary works. For the city pictures that were taken of Paris, Benares, New York and Warsaw, for example, she familiarized herself with four cultures, which she called the “four human mentalities”.

publication

  • Alice Halicka: Here . Du Pavois, Paris, 1946

literature

  • Nadine Nieszawer, Marie Boyé, Paul Fogel: Peintres Juifs à Paris 1905–1939 École de Paris , with a foreword by Claude Lanzmann . Éditions Denoël, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-207-25142-X
  • Krzysztof Zagrodzki: Alicja Halicka . Catalog (Polish-English) for the exhibition at Villa la Fleur in Konstancin-Jeziorna near Warsaw, Muza S.A. 2011, ISBN 978-83-7758-096-7
  • Paula J. Birnbaum: Alice Halicka's self-effacement: constructing an artistic identity in interwar France , in: Nicholas Mirzoeff (Ed.): Diaspora and visual culture: representing Africans and Jews . London: Routledge 2000, pp. 207-223
  • Anna Król: Halicka, Alicja . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 68, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23035-6 , p. 186 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Baiser de la Fée , nycballet.com, accessed April 11, 2014
  2. ↑ Quoted from the web links of the authors Nadine Nieszawer and Oscar Ghez
  3. ↑ Quoted from Oscar Ghez's web link
personal data
SURNAME Halicka, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halicka, Alicja (maiden name); Marcoussis, Alice (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Polish painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH 1st January 1975
Place of death Paris