Léopold Survage

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Amedeo Modigliani : Portrait of Léopold Survage, oil on canvas, 1918

Léopold Frédéric Leopoldovich Survage , actually Leopold Friedrich fall Wage (* 31 March 1879 in Lappeenranta ( Finland ); † 3. June 1968 in Paris ) was a French painter of the Cubism Finnish / Russian origin.

Life

Léopold Survage, the son of a piano maker, studied at the Moscow Art Academy from 1901 . In 1906 he showed his work for the first time in western countries on the occasion of the “ Paris Autumn Salon ”. In July 1908 he moved to Paris with Hélène Moniuschko, his future wife, where he joined the artists of Montparnasse . Within a very short time he made the acquaintance of the city's most famous artists, including Georges Braque , Tsuguharu Foujita , Fernand Léger , Jean Cocteau , Juan Gris , Chaim Soutine , Moise Kisling , Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso . He soon became close friends with Henri Matisse and influenced his later works ( Composition with Fishes , 1917).

Survage joined the Section d'Or artists' association, founded in 1912 , whose most famous members were István Beöthy , Marcel Duchamp , Albert Gleizes , Juan Gris , Francis Picabia , Jacques Villon and Alexander Archipenko . In the following years Survage exhibited at the Société des Artistes Indépendants , the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Tuileries . Inspired by the motion pictures of the film, Survage tried between 1912/1913 to express musical, temporal elements in abstract color compositions ( Rythmes colorés at the Gaumont Film Company ).

The constant search for new means of expression led Léopold Survage to tapestries , tapestries , book illustrations , stage and costume design for Ballets Russes ( Mavra , 1922) and textile designs for the House of Chanel . Interest in his work has increased steadily over the past few years and they fetch high prices at art auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie's .

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1968: Musée des beaux-arts , Lyon
  • 1930: Museum of Modern Art , New York City
  • 1929: Knoedler Gallery , New York City
  • 1914: Salon des Indépendants , Paris
  • 1913: Salon d'Automne , Paris

Collective exhibitions

  • Musée national d'art modern Georges Pompidou , Paris
  • Bezalel Museum , Jerusalem
  • Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
  • Musée des beaux-arts , Lyon
  • Musée du Petit Palais , Geneva
  • Musée national d'art moderne , Paris
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Museum of Modern Art , New York City
  • National Museum of Arts , Moscow
  • National Museum , Athens

literature

  • Daniel Abadie: Survage d'un seul trait. Préface à l'exposition Survage (1974)
  • Serge Fauchereau: Quelques remarques. Préface à l'exposition Survage (1990)
  • Léopold Survage: Divertissements. Cahiers de L'Abbaye Sainte-Croix , Les Sables d'Olonnes (1975)
  • Ecrits sur la peinture, suivi de Survage au regard de la critique , l'Archipel éditeur. Paris (1992)
  • Jeanine Warnod: Survage , André De Rache éditeur, Brussels (1983)
  • Daniel Abadie: Survage, Les années héroïques , Anthese éditions (1993)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hansen, Robert C .: Scenic and Costume Design for the Ballets Russes. 1985, p. 65
personal data
SURNAME Survage, Léopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sturzwage, Leopold Friedrich (real name); Survage, Léopold Frédéric Léopoldowitsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cubism painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Lappeenranta
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 1968
Place of death Paris