Iosif Iser
Iosif Iser (born May 21, 1881 in Bucharest , † April 25, 1958 in Bucharest) was a Romanian painter of Jewish descent.
Life
Iser grew up in Ploiesti . From 1899 to 1904 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Anton Ažbe and Johann Caspar Herterich . In 1904 he returned to Ploieşti, where he had his first solo exhibition. From 1905 he lived in Bucharest and worked there as a cartoonist for various magazines. He took part in the Tinerimii artistice exhibition , and in 1906 his first personal exhibition was held in Bucharest.
From 1907 to 1909 he lived in Paris and studied at the Académie Ranson . He had contact with the circle of avant-garde painters from Montmartre, where he a. a. Constantin Brâncuși and André Derain met. During this time he also worked for the satirical magazines Les Témoins and Le Rire .
In 1909, Iser organized the first exhibition of modern art in the Athenaeum in Bucharest. During the First World War he was a soldier on the Moldovan front, the painting Soldiers (1917, in the National Museum of Bucharest) testifies to this time. From 1921 to 1934 he lived again in Paris before finally returning to Romania.
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In 1926 he took part in an exhibition of the Berlin Secession , in the 1930s exhibitions of his works took place in Paris, Bucharest, Brussels, The Hague and Amsterdam. With George Petrașcu and Ștefan Popescu he founded the artist group Arta . After the Second World War, exhibitions of his works took place in New York (1948), Moscow and St. Petersburg (1956), Vienna (1957) and at the Biennale di Venezia (1954). In 1955 Iser became a member of the Academia Româna .
literature
- Claus Stephani : Man in man is eternal. Marginalia on the portrait of the Jew in modern art. Try to look back. Part 2, The Jew as a general "scapegoat". In: David. Jüdische Kulturzeitschrift (Vienna), 17/64, 4/2005, pp. 20–25
- Claus Stephani : The image of the Jew in modern painting. An introduction. / Imaginea evreului în pictura modernă. Introductiv study. Bilingual edition (Romanian / German). Editura Hasefer: Bucharest, 2005. ISBN 973-630-091-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.david.juden.at/kulturzeitschrift/61-65/65-Stephani.htm
- ↑ Bernd Fäthke, In Vorfeld des Expressionismus, Anton Ažbe and painting in Munich and Paris, Wiesbaden 1988, p. 21, fig. 26
Web links
- Literature by and about Iosif Iser in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Iser, Iosif |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1958 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |