Georges Kars

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Self-Portrait (1929)

Georges Kars (born May 2, 1880 , according to some sources also 1882 in Kralupy near Prague ; † February 5, 1945 in Geneva ; actually Jiří Karpeles , also Jiří or Georg Kars ) was a Czech painter and draftsman who wrote his work among others Dedicated to landscape painting and nude painting.

Life

Kars was born in Prague to a family of mill owners from Germany. As a schoolboy he took painting lessons in Prague. From 1899 to 1905 he was a student of Franz von Stuck at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and in Heinrich Knirr's private school . During this time he made friends with Jules Pascin and Paul Klee in Munich . From 1906 to 1907 he traveled to Portugal and Spain , where he met Juan Gris . He dealt intensively with the painting of Velazquez and Goya .

From 1908 until the First World War he lived mostly in Paris. Here he had contact with artist colleagues Pascin , Chagall , Apollinaire and Max Jacob, among others . During the First World War, Kars stayed in Belgium . In 1939 he returned to Paris; in the same year he fled to Lyon and in 1942 he moved to live with his sister in Switzerland, which was safe for him as a Jew . In 1945, Georges Kars committed suicide by falling from the 5th floor of a hotel. He could no longer bear the tragedy of his people, the Shoah .

effect

Odalisque (1929)

Kars was a member of the Salon d'Automne , the Salon des Indépendants des Salon des Tuileries and the Prague Secession . He had exhibitions with Hans Goltz in Munich, Arnot, Paris, the Salon d'Automne , with B. Weil and Bernier, Paris, among others. His work is exhibited in various museums in Europe. In 1965 a smaller exhibition of his works took place in the Vincenc Kramář gallery in Prague.

In 1966, Kars' studio and his artistic estate were auctioned off in the Palais Galliera . In a major retrospective in 1983, 120 of his works were exhibited in the Musée d'Art Moderne in Troyes .

literature

  • Kars, Georges . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 571 .
  • Georges Kars . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 20 .
  • Florent Fels: Georges Kars. Editions “Le Triangle”, Paris 1930.
  • Hans Tietze: Georg Kars. In: Karl Scheffler (Hrsg.): Art and artists: illustrated monthly for the fine arts and applied arts. Volume 27, Issue 6, Bruno Cassier, Berlin 1929, pp. 238–239 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Georges Kars studio 1880–1945. Aquarelles - Gouaches - Pastels - Sanguines - Peintures. Auction catalog Hotel Drouot (C. Robert) Paris 1966.
  • Georges Kars 1880–1945. Sales catalog Galerie Ketterer Munich undated (1967).
  • Joseph Jolinon: La vie et l'oeuvre de Georges Kars. Lyons Ed. Imp.Gle du Sud-est 1958.
  • Emil Szittya: La paysage francais. Paris. Ars, Col. “Problemes d'art”, March 15, 1929.
  • Kars, Georg, actually Karpeles . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. tape 5 : Hitz – Kozub . KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25035-5 , pp. 514 ( books.google.de - here May 5th, 1882 as birthday).

Web links

Commons : Georges Kars  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Jewish Museum: Georges Kars (2 May 1880, Kralupy, Central Bohemia - 6 February 1945, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Georges Kars Academy of Fine Arts Munich

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the Born. In: Velvary birth records 1874–1895. 1880, Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
  2. ^ Hermann Alexander Müller , Hans Wolfgang Singer : Kars, Georg . In: General Artist Lexicon . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 154 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ KARS, Georges (1882–1945), Painter, pastellist, sculptor, lithographer. In: Oxford Index. Oxford University Press, accessed October 31, 2017 .
  4. ^ The Exhibition "Georges Kars: The human being is the only thing that matters." In: aloos.cz. 2017, accessed on October 31, 2017 .
  5. ↑ 02355 Georg Karpeles. In: Matriculation Book 1884–1920. Munich ( matrikel.adbk.de ).
  6. ↑ a b Artistes D'Europe - Montparnasse déporté. Musée du Montparnasse 2005, p. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Kars, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karpeles, Georges; Kars, Jiri; Karpeles, Jiří; Kars, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Kralupy nad Vltavou
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1945
Place of death Geneva