Markus Mizne
Markus Mizne (* 1908 in Kiev , Russian Empire ; † 1994 in New York City ) was a Ukrainian-Brazilian painter and art collector. Mizne became famous for his experimental flower pattern paintings.
life and work
Markus Mizne grew up in a family with artistic and musical inclinations. He was influenced early on by his uncle David Trympolsky, a sculptor, painter and museum curator in Kiev, who introduced him to the works of Malevich and Kandinsky .
He lived with his family in Moscow in the early 1920s. The family sent him to a boarding school in Germany , where he was introduced to modern art by attending courses on the Bauhaus . He started painting at the age of 16.
After returning to Russia from Germany in 1931, he and his family moved to Poland. In 1932, at the age of 24, he made a trip to Tehran and Damascus, on to Europe, and finally to Paris, where he settled.
In 1935 Markus Mizne and the pianist Felicja Blumental married in Warsaw, where they had met a few years before. Mizne painted in Paris and was friends with many artists, including Foujita , van Dongen , Braque , Larionow , Goncharova , Pevsner and Fautrier . In 1939 he managed to escape the increasing Nazi terror from Europe to Brazil. In 1962 the Mizne family settled in Europe again, living in Paris, Milan, Rome and London. In 1991 Markus Mizne moved to New York with his daughter Annette Celine , where he died in 1994.
He personally embodied the beginnings of modern painting, the renunciation of representational, conventional representation, and a new claim to reality. He was part of the turn to the abstract and spiritual.
Freedom of expression for an artist corresponds to the scientist's deep pursuit of truth and the philosopher's desire to free people from conventional constraints. Markus Mizne, whose inner world appears tangible in his pictures, turned his attention to the reality of what exists within.
Markus Mizne's abstract art is really vital and visible to us today as a documentation of invincible spirit; his paintings are a further development of his inner desire for individual freedom and a world dominated by spiritual power.
literature
- Nehama Guralnik: The Mizne-Blumental Collection Tel Aviv Museum of Art, cat 1/1995, p. 12 ff.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mizne, Markus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mizne, Mark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian-Brazilian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1994 |
| Place of death | New York City |