Jules Perahim

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Jules Perahim , actually Iuliş Blumenfeld , (born May 24, 1914 in Bucharest , † March 2, 2008 in Paris ) was a Romanian painter of surrealism and socialist realism .

Life

Jules Perahim was born as Iuliş Blumenfeld into a Jewish family. He learned from the Romanian avant-garde artists Nicolae Vermont and Costin Petrescu and was already drawing for the surrealist magazine Unu at the age of seventeen . He took the stage name Perahim , the Hebrew translation for flowers. In 1931 he worked on the publication of Pulă magazine . Organ Universal involved, in which the magazine's tail title caused a scandal, which led to an investigation into the spread of pornography . In February 1932, Marcel Janco organized his first solo exhibition for him, which, however, met with no response. Perahim wrote and drew for progressive magazines. His drawings and paintings from these years combine expressionistic and surrealistic elements with filigree details in a fantastic landscape. Perahim was a member of the Communist Party, which had been illegal since 1924 . He exhibited his striking, anti-fascist pictures in Bucharest and Brașov in 1936 , which called the Iron Guard onto the scene. In 1938 he showed pictures to John Heartfield in Prague .

Since 1938, Perahim had been endangered as a Jew by the adoption of the German racial laws in Romania , which is why he fled to the Soviet Union in 1939 or 1940, full of idealism . In the Caucasus he had to work in a camp. He returned to Bucharest in August 1944 in Soviet army uniform.

In the Socialist Republic of Romania was a party doctrine of Socialist Realism art prescribed in all divisions. Perahim did not withdraw and adapted himself to this in his work as a book illustrator and set designer. He received a professorship at the Bucharest Theater Institute and was editor of the magazine Arta plastică . When an opportunity arose in 1969, he fled Romania and went to Paris , where he resumed his surrealist style of painting. He died there as the last painter from the generation of surrealists.

Perahim was married to the actress Agnia Bogoslava and a second marriage to Marina Vanci.

Writings, illustrations and exhibitions (selection)

  • Nina Cassian : Nică fără frică . Illustrations: Jules Perachim. Bucureşti: Ed. Pencil case, 1953
    • Nina Cassian: Niki, the brave . German Nachichtg: Else Kornis . Illustrations: Jules Perachim. Bucharest: Verl. F. Foreign language literature, 1958
  • Gellu Naum : Poem despre tinereţea noastra . Illustrations: Jules Perachim. Bucureşti: Ed. Pencil case 1960
  • Tudor Arghezi : Stihuri pestrite . Illustrations: Jules Perachim. Bucureşti: Ed. Pencil case 1960
  • Gellu Naum : Soarele calm . Illustrations: Jules Perachim. Bucureşti: Ed. p. lit 1961
  • Mihai Eminescu : Poezii . Illustrations: Jules Perachim. Bucureşti: Ed. Pencil case 1961
  • (Ed.): Combative graphics in Romania - Grafica militantǎ romîneascǎ . Bucharest: Editura Meridiane, 1963
  • Alexandru Macedonski : Poema rondelurilor . Illustrations: Jules Perachim. Bucureşti: Ed. p. lit 1968
  • René Crevel : Illustrations: Jules Perachim. Paris: Europe 1985
  • Estelle Pietrzyk: Perahim. La Parade Sauvage , November 15, 2014 - March 8, 2015 at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Strasbourg (MAMCS)

literature

  • Roland Prügel: In the symbol of the city: Avant-garde in Romania (1920–1930) . Cologne: Böhlau, 2008. Zugl .: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2006
  • Stefana Sabin : The last surrealist , at: faust-culture
  • Lothar Lang : Jules Perahim's revolutionary cycle: an example of socialist modernity , in: Bildende Kunst , 1959, pp. 340–343

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Roland Prügel: In the sign of the city , 2008, pp. 140–145
  2. ↑ Marina Vanci-Perahim in DNB
personal data
SURNAME Perahim, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blumenfeld, Iuliş (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian painter of surrealism and socialist realism
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 2008
Place of death Paris