Arthur Segal
Arthur Aron Segal (born July 13, 1875 in Jassy , Romania , † June 23, 1944 in London ) was a Romanian painter .
Life
Aron Sigalu grew up as the son of a Jewish banker in Botoșani and came to Berlin in 1892 , where he studied with Eugen Bracht . In 1904 he married his cousin Ernestine in Berlin. The two took an active part in the Berlin art scene. In 1910 he founded the New Secession with 26 other artists in response to the Berlin Secession , where he also had several exhibitions, which he left again in 1912 due to internal contradictions. In 1912 he exhibited at Herwarth Walden , who also published it in the storm . 1910 to 1911 Segal traveled to Paris.
After the outbreak of the World War, the pacifist Segal fled from Berlin to Ascona, to the dropouts from Monte Verità . He ran a painting school there. His house on the mountain became a meeting place for exiled artists such as Hans Arp , Marianne von Werefkin , Alexej Jawlensky and Lou Albert-Lasard . He maintained a friendly relationship with his neighbor and compatriot, the poet- prophet Gusto Gräser . Together with the Dadaists who had come to Ascona, he took part in the exhibitions at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich.
Between 1914 and 1920 Segal developed the principle of equivalence, in which he assigned the same meaning to his objects and figures in a grid of rectangles placed on top of the picture. In the course of this, he increasingly distanced himself from objectivity. Colors, which he prismatically dismantled, determined his pictures.
In 1920 Segal returned to Berlin. In 1919 he joined the November Group, in whose exhibitions he participated in 1921–1925 and 1927–1931, and was soon elected a member of the board.
From 1920 to 1933 he ran his own painting school in Berlin-Charlottenburg , which became a meeting place for many artists.
In the 1920s he supported Otto Dix , George Grosz and Käthe Kollwitz in actions of the union and the SPD on the eight-hour day . In 1933 Segal had to flee Germany. It went via Mallorca, which he then had to leave because of the civil war , to London. There he founded the "Arthur Segal Painting School" in 1936, which existed until 1977. Arthur Segal died of heart failure after an air raid on London.
Arthur Segal was the father of the architect Walter Segal .
literature
- Ernestine Segal: The life and work of Arthur Segal, 1875-1944. Arthur Segal's Painting School for Professional and Non-professional, 1956.
- Eva Chrambach: Segal, Arthur. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 158 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wulf Herzogenrath, Pavel Liska (Ed.): Arthur Segal 1875–1944. Argon Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87024-110-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Arthur Segal in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography Berlinische Galerie ( Memento from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Matriculation of the Munich Academy
- Imogen Wiltshire: Painting as Psychotherapy: Arthur Segal's Painting School for Professionals and Non-Professionals (1937-1944). University of Birmingham, 2013
- Arthur Segal's painting in the holdings of the Jewish Museum Berlin
- Arthur Segal's estate at the Leo Baeck Institute New York
- Arthur Segal's painting in the Romanian National Art Museum, Bucharest
Individual evidence
- ↑ uiowa.edu
- ↑ Arthur Segal's just painting . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1987 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Segal, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sigalu, Aron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian-Jewish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iași |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1944 |
| Place of death | London |