Leopold Zborowski
Leopold Zborowski (* 1889 in Warsaw , † 1932 in Paris ) was a Polish art dealer and poet .
Life
Together with his partner Anna (or Hanka ) and later wife, Leopold Zborowski came to France in 1910 , where he found a job as an art dealer at the Académie des Beaux-Arts . He frequented the Café de la Rotonde , the meeting point of the Cubists , in the bohemian Montparnasse district in Paris.
In the following years he acquired paintings by Marc Chagall , Alexej von Jawlensky , Paul Klee , Pablo Picasso , Paul Cézanne , André Derain , Aristide Maillol , René Iché , Maurice de Vlaminck , Georges Rouault , Maurice Utrillo and Auguste Rodin, among others .
In 1916, the painter Moise Kisling introduced his friend and neighbor Amedeo Modigliani to the art dealer Zborowski, who signed him. In the following years Modigliani painted 35 pictures for him. To avoid the German bombs, the Zborowski couple moved to Nice and Cagnes-sur-Mer with the emigrant Lunia Czechowska, whose husband was at the front and had given her into the care of their childhood friend . Czechowska became an important model for Modigliani. Their relationship was platonic, which is worth noting because the Italian beau had a lot of affairs . After the death of his protégé (from tuberculous meningitis in 1920 ), Leopold Zborowski bought up all of the paintings , sculptures and sketches and became wealthy. On the advice of Zborowski, the painter Chaim Soutine stayed in the Pyrenees town of Céret from 1919 to 1922 , where he created a landscape series that is unique in the art of the 20th century .
At the end of the 1920s Leopold Zborowski had a liaison with his secretary Paulette Jourdain and separated from his wife. He lost his fortune in 1929 due to the Great Depression and died completely impoverished in Paris in 1932, where he was buried in a poor grave .
Others
There are only three portraits of Amadeo Modigliani and one of Jean Fautrier (1928) by Leopold Zborowski . In 2003, a portrait of Modigliani from 1917 was bought from an unknown buyer at Sotheby’s auction house in London for $ 1,464,000.
literature
- Emily Braun, Kathleen Brunner, Simonetta Fraquelli: Modigliani and his models . Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1811-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amedeo Modigliani: Portrait de Leopold Zborowski. sothebys.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zborowski, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-Jewish art dealer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1932 |
| Place of death | Paris |