Jesekiel David Kirszenbaum

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Jesekiel David Kirszenbaum ( Hebrew יחזקאל דויד קירשנבוים, also other forms of name, born August 15, 1900 in Staszów , Russian Empire ; died August 1, 1954 in Paris ) was a Polish-French painter. He also published under the pseudonym Duvdivani.

life and work

Kirszenbaum (also known as Kirschenbaum in Germany) was born the son of a rabbi . In 1920 he came to Germany as a stateless person . He worked as a miner in the Ruhr area for three years to finance his studies at the Bauhaus in Weimar. From 1923 he studied at the State Bauhaus in Weimar a. a. under Paul Klee , Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger . In 1925 he moved to Berlin. There he drew caricatures for the Berlin workers' press, such as the magazines Ulk , Cross section , Roter Pfeffer , Magazin für alle and in the KPD organ Die Rote Fahne . Sometimes he worked under the pseudonym Duwdivani or Duvdivani. In 1930 Kirszenbaum married the journalist Helma Joachim (1904–1944), who worked for the Deutsche Bühnengenossenschaft . At first they lived in Eichwalde . In 1929 he exhibited at the jury-free art exhibition in Berlin. He became a member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists and took part in its exhibition in 1931.

In 1933 he fled to Paris and became part of the École de Paris . During the Second World War , Kirszenbaum came to Bellac in the Limousin. Kirszenbaum's works were considered degenerate art by the National Socialists . His Paris studio was destroyed by the Germans. About 600 of his works were lost. His wife Helma was arrested, deported and murdered by the Gestapo in 1944 . He himself survived in the Limousin and after the end of the war moved to live with his sister, a Holocaust survivor, in Brazil . He returned to France in 1949 and received French citizenship. With the help of the patron Alix de Rothschild, he turned back to painting. Kirszenbaum exhibited in Limoges and Paris, among others, and traveled to Italy and Morocco. In 1954 he died of cancer.

In his pictures Kirszenbaum processes his Polish-Jewish roots and later also what he experienced in the persecution with the means of Expressionism .

In 1997, Kirschenbaumstrasse in Berlin-Treptow was named after him.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Weimar, 1923
  • Berlin, 1927
  • Utrecht, 1931
  • Amsterdam, 1932
  • Paris, 1935
  • Limoges, 1945
  • Lyon, 1946, Maison de la Pensée Française
  • Paris, 1947, Quatre Chemins Gallery
  • São Paulo, 1948,
  • Rio den Janeiro, 1948
  • Paris, 1951, Andre Weil Gallery
  • Paris, 1953, Au Pont des Arts Gallery
  • Jerusalem, 1954, Center for advanced art -Tsavta
  • Paris, 1963, Galerie Flinker

literature

  • Renate Treydel: Kirszenbaum, Jecheskiel Dawid . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 80, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023185-4 , p. 333 f.
  • Frederic Hagen: JD Kirszenbaum. Karl Flinker, Paris 1961.
  • C. Aronson: Scenes et visages de Montparnasse. Naie press, Paris 1963, pp. 425-429.
  • E. de Litzin: La peinture actuelle en France. Sanoma Oy, Helsinki 1947.
  • J. Digne: Artistes d'Europe Montparnasse deporte. Musee du Montparnasse, Paris 2005, pp. 66 ff., 187-189.
  • Window: Nos artistes martyrs. 1951.
  • R. Keller: The Jews a Treasury of Art and Literature. Hugh Lavter, New York 1992, p. 318.
  • N. Nieszawer: Peintres juif a Paris 1905-1939. Ed. Denoel, Paris 2000, pp. 66 ff., 179-180.
  • C. Roth: Jewish Art. Massada press, Israel 1971, pp. 251-252.
  • L. Rainbow: Dictionary of Jewish painters. Ed.Tehnica, Bucarest 2004, pp. 237-238.
  • A. Wierzbicka: Ecole de Paris. History Mus. Lodz, Warsaw 2004, p. 94.
  • G. Wigodek: Everyman Judaica. Keter publications, Jerusalem 1975, p. 1054.
  • Volkhard Knigge , Harry Stein (ed.): Franz Ehrlich. A Bauhaus member in the resistance and concentration camp. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation in cooperation with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in the Neues Museum Weimar from August 2, 2009 to October 11, 2009.) Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-935598- 15-6 , p. 151.

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personal data
SURNAME Kirszenbaum, Jesekiel David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirszenbaum, Jecheskiel Dawid; Cherry tree
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Staszów
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1954
Place of death Paris