Chaim Kiev
Chaim (Egon) Kiewe (born October 8, 1912 in Dlottowen , East Prussia ; † May 12, 1983 in Bat Yam , Israel ) was an important German-Israeli painter.
Early life
Chaim Kiewe was born in Dlottowen ( East Prussia ) in 1912 as the son of Luis Kiewe and Johanna Toller, an assimilated Jewish family who owned a guest house and horse farm. In his youth he moved to Berlin , where he attended school and graduated from secondary school .
In 1934 he emigrated to Israel with the Jewish children and youth organization Alijat Noar . There he came to Kibbutz Na'an. Here he began to paint and did it self-taught . His early works show portraits of kibbutz residents, the surrounding landscapes and much more.
He became a member of the Hagana in the 1940s and was arrested by the British Mandate Government in 1947 in connection with Operation Agatha ( Black Sabbath ). He was detained in Rafah Prison . A series of charcoal drawings was created here that documented the life of the prisoners. After his release in 1948, he was a company commander in the Giv'ati Brigade during the Israeli War of Independence .
Life as an artist
In the following years he created sets and costumes for the theater. In 1950 his first vernissage as an independent artist took place in Tel Aviv . In 1951 the first study trip to Paris to the Grande Chaumière Academy followed , combined with an exhibition in the gallery “ La Galerie ” in the Rue de Seine. From 1953 he gave courses in drawing and painting together with the painters Joseph Zaritsky and Avigdor Steimatzky in Kibbutz Na'an, which he later continued on his own. In the years 1953–1959 he belonged to the artist group Ofakim Hadaschim ("New Horizons"), in which he exhibited his pictures. For the next ten years he lived alternately in Paris and Bat Yam . In Bat Yam, he directed the local art museum ( Bat Yam Museum ). He also organized his own and group exhibitions with other artists in Antwerp , Paris ( Salon d'Art Moderne ), Brussels ( Museum of Modern Art ), New York ( Jewish Museum ) and in Düsseldorf ( Brückengalerie ). In 1969 he took part in the exhibition at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris, as well as at the international festival for painters in Cagnes-sur-Mer . Further exhibitions within the artist group Ofakim Hadaschim followed by 1970 .
From 1969 he lived exclusively in Bat Jam , where he became a valued teacher at the Bezal'el Art School in Jerusalem. He also taught at the Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv and the Bat Yam Institute for Plastic Art. In 1974 he had a retrospective exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum, followed by his own exhibition in the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem in 1982 .
Private
Chaim Kiewe died in Bat Yam in 1983. He was married and had three children. Some of his works are privately owned or can be viewed in public collections around the world.
Self portrait
"Petrushka"
Prizes and awards
- 1962 First prize in the "Salon d'Art Moderne" in Paris
- 1963 First prize for an israeli artist in school of Paris Exhibition in the Charpentier Gallery in Paris
- 1969 First prize for an israeli artist in the international Festival of Painting in Cagnes-sur-mer
literature
- Gideon Ofrat: Chaim Kiewe . Koren Publishers, Jerusalem 1989.
- Yigal Zalmona (Ed.): Chaim Kiewe. New Paintings . Jerusalem 1982 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Israel Museum , summer 1982).
Individual evidence
- ↑ imj.org, Kiewe, Chaim, Germany, 1912-1983 ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 1, 2010
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiev, Chaim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kiev, Egon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dlottowen , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1983 |
| Place of death | Bat Yam , Israel |