Louis Marcoussis

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Louis Marcoussis: Self-Portrait , 1936

Louis Marcoussis (born November 14, 1878 in Warsaw , † October 22, 1941 in Cusset , France ; actually Ludwig Kasimir Ladislas Marcus ) was a French graphic artist and painter of Jewish origin from Poland. It can be assigned to cubism .

Live and act

Marcoussis briefly studied law in Warsaw before he began studying art with Jan Stanisławski at the Cracow Art Academy in 1901 . He came to Paris in 1903 , where he briefly was a student of Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian . There a friendship developed with Roger de La Fresnaye and Lotiron . Marcoussis exhibited for the first time in 1905 in the Salon d'Automne , in 1906 in the Salon des Indépendants and was committed to Cubism since 1907. He earned his living through illustrations and caricatures for numerous satirical magazines. In 1906 he met Edgar Degas , in 1910 Georges Braque , Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire . He was friends with numerous artists, v. a. with Juan Gris , Fernand Léger , Francis Picabia , Jean Metzinger , Jacques Villon , Marcel Duchamp and Albert Gleizes . After a liaison with Marcelle Humbert (Eva Gouel), who left him to join Picasso, in 1913 he married Alice Halicka , a French painter, a native of Poland. From 1914 to 1919 he did military service in the French army.

In the twenties he traveled to the USA , among other places . In 1933 he took over a professorship for printmaking at the Académie Schlaefer in Paris. When war broke out in 1940 he had to flee from the German troops to Cusset (near Vichy ), where he died in October of the following year.

  • Le bar du port , 1913

  • Violon, bouteilles de Marc et cartes , 1919

  • Composition cubiste au portrait, poisson et clair de lune , 1926

  • Poire verte et couteau , without dating

Solo exhibitions

  • 1905 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1906 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
  • 1925 Le Pierre Gallery, Paris
  • 1928 Le Centaure Gallery, Brussels
  • 1929 Georges Bernheim Gallery, Paris
  • 1929 Jeanne Bucher Gallery, Paris
  • 1933 Knoedler Gallery, New York
  • 1934 Arts Club, Chicago
  • 1936 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
  • 1937 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (retrospective)
  • 1939 London Gallery, London
  • 1949 memorial exhibition in Paris
  • 1950 memorial exhibition in Basel
  • 1951 memorial exhibition in Brussels

Works

  • City with Viaduct (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), around 1930, oil on canvas

source

  • Art archive Werner Kittel in the central archive of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, since 2010 in the art and museum library of the city of Cologne (SMB)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Marcoussis, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcus, Ludwig Kasimir Ladislas (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1941
Place of death Cusset , France