Marcel Słodki

Léopold Gottlieb , male portrait (probably representing Marceli Słodki)

Marcel Słodki: Poster for the first DADA presentation in Zurich in 1916

Marcel Słodki ( November 11, 1892 in Łódź , Russian Empire ; died after December 17, 1943 or 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ; also Marceli Słodki ) was a Polish-Jewish painter , graphic artist and set designer .

Life

Słodki was the son of an authorized signatory and bank director in Łódź. He first attended the local school before studying with Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich from October 31, 1910 to 1913 . After the outbreak of war in 1914, he avoided internment in Switzerland . He was one of the first Dadaists in Zurich . From 1921 to 1924 he lived in Berlin and was director of the " Wild Stage ". He was an employee of Franz Pfemfert's Die Aktion . In 1924 Słodki moved to Paris . He showed his works at the Paris Salon des indépendants in 1928 and Salon d'Automne in 1937, in Warsaw in 1934 and in London in 1938.

He married the painter Macha (nee Boulanger). During the Second World War he lived in hiding in Brive-la-Gaillarde . In 1943 he was able to evade arrest because he was warned in good time. Using forged documents, he and his wife fled to Bourg-Saint-Maurice near Chambéry . On December 14, 1943, they were betrayed again and initially interned in Drancy , and then deported to Auschwitz in convoy No. 63 on December 17, 1943.

Works (selection)

Trapeze artist ( untitled , approx. 1915, printed in Die Aktion Nr. 6, 1916)

Ivan S Turgenev: Kazń Tropmana: iz literaturnych i žitejskich vospominanij. (Illustrations)

Klabund : Pjotr. Novel of a tsar. Cover design by Marcel Słodki. Reiss, Berlin 1923.

Hans Janowitz: Asphalt ballads. (Lithographs)

literature

J. Sandel: Słodki, Marceli . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 299 .
M. Wallis-Walfisz : Słodki, Marceli . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 140 .

Web links

Commons : Marcel Słodki - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Marcel Słodki in the catalog of the German National Library
Marcel Slodki Polish, 1892–1943 moma.org
Marceli Słodki 1892-11-11 - 1944.ipsb.nina.gov.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

↑ Marcel Słodki, poster for the opening of the Voltaire artists' pub, 1916. digital.kunsthaus.ch, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
↑ Tamar Lewinsky, Sandrine Mayoraz: East European Jews in Switzerland . Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030071-0 , p. 227 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
↑ ^a ^b Marcel Slodki. ecoledeparis.org, 2019, accessed March 4, 2020 .
^ Słodki, Marcel . In: Shane Weller (ed.): German Expressionist Woodcuts . Dover, New York 1994, ISBN 0-486-28069-1 , pp. 129 ( books.google.de ).
↑ 03963 Marcelli Slodki . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 3: 1884–1920 ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
^ Unauthorized Salvadoran citizenship certificate issued to Marcel Slodki (November 8, 1892 in Lodz) by George Mandel-Mantello, First Secretary of the Salvadoran Consulate in Switzerland and sent to him in the Drancy transit camp. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed March 4, 2020 (it says Deported with Convoy No. 62).
↑ Bruce Davis: German expressionist prints and drawings (= The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies . Volume 2 ). Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Prestel, Los Angeles / Munich 1989, p. 740 , no. 2802 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Ivan S. Turgenev, Marcel Slodki: Kazń Tropmana: iz literaturnych i žitejskich vospominanij . Gelikon, Moscow 1922 ( ls.vanabbemuseum.nl - a picture from it).
^ Hans Janowitz: Asphalt ballads . With sixteen lithographs by Marcel Slodki. Die Schmiede, Berlin 1924 ( digital.kunsthaus.ch ).

personal data
SURNAME	Słodki, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Słodki, Marceli (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish painter, graphic artist and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Łódź
DATE OF DEATH	1943 or 1944
Place of death	Auschwitz concentration camp

[1] Marcel Słodki, poster for the opening of the Voltaire artists' pub, 1916. digital.kunsthaus.ch, accessed on March 4, 2020 .

[2] Tamar Lewinsky, Sandrine Mayoraz: East European Jews in Switzerland . Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030071-0 , p. 227 ( books.google.de - reading sample).

[ecoledeparis-3] Marcel Slodki. ecoledeparis.org, 2019, accessed March 4, 2020 .

[4] Słodki, Marcel . In: Shane Weller (ed.): German Expressionist Woodcuts . Dover, New York 1994, ISBN 0-486-28069-1 , pp. 129 ( books.google.de ).

[5] 03963 Marcelli Slodki . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 3: 1884–1920 ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).

[6] Unauthorized Salvadoran citizenship certificate issued to Marcel Slodki (November 8, 1892 in Lodz) by George Mandel-Mantello, First Secretary of the Salvadoran Consulate in Switzerland and sent to him in the Drancy transit camp. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed March 4, 2020 (it says Deported with Convoy No. 62).

[7] Bruce Davis: German expressionist prints and drawings (= The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies . Volume 2 ). Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Prestel, Los Angeles / Munich 1989, p. 740 , no. 2802 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[8] Ivan S. Turgenev, Marcel Slodki: Kazń Tropmana: iz literaturnych i žitejskich vospominanij . Gelikon, Moscow 1922 ( ls.vanabbemuseum.nl - a picture from it).

[9] Hans Janowitz: Asphalt ballads . With sixteen lithographs by Marcel Slodki. Die Schmiede, Berlin 1924 ( digital.kunsthaus.ch ).