Moïse Bercovici-Erco

Moïse Bercovici-Erco , actually Moshe Bercovici-Erco , also Moïse Erco Bercovici , (born July 1, 1904 in Iași , Romania ; † April 5, 1944 ) was a Romanian painter and engraver of Jewish faith who was on the way to a concentration camp of German soldier was shot.

Live and act

The engraver and painter Moise Bercovici-Erco was discovered by Octav Băncilă , who was a professor at the Școala de Belle Arte in Iași at the time. He started studying painting. His classmates included Băncilă, Nicolae Tonitza , Corneliu Baba and Arnold. In 1931 Bercovici-Erco went to Paris to complete his skills. Here he founded a studio at 69 rue Delambre. Exhibitions followed in Paris - at the Salon des Tuileries , the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , together with his contemporaries Marc Chagall , Alexej von Jawlensky , Wassily Kandinsky and Jacques Lipchitz . Bercovici-Erco trained his own students in Paris; his pictures mainly showed areas of Paris, but he also created portraits. He and his wife Maria Paluschkewitz made a good living from selling his pictures. Both lived on Montparnasse at 107 Avenue du Maine, not far from Guillaume Apollinaire , Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger . His apartment became a meeting place for contemporary artists.

Bercovici-Erco was arrested on September 24, 1942 in Paris by the German occupiers and taken to the Drancy assembly camp . On September 28, 1942 was performed his deportation in the satellite camp Blechhammer of the Auschwitz concentration camp in what is now Poland . While walking to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp , he was shot on the side of the road on April 5, 1944 after he had lost his strength.

“On the way from the“ Blechhammer Concentration Camp ”to the relocation, he and his fellow prisoners were driven back and forth between“ Blechhammer ”and the various concentration camps, so first to Reigersfeld and back the next day, several times. There were other inhumane marches, in snow and ice, for example to Bunzlau , Görlitz , Peterswalde and then the way to Gross-Rosen. […] On April 5, 1944, Moise Erco-Bercovici left his strength and the help of his fellow prisoners could not motivate him to continue. He sat down on the roadside and his fellow sufferers heard several shots and it can be assumed that he was shot there by the German soldiers. "

- Co-prisoner Henry Rot Rubin 1955

Almost the entire life's work of Bercovici-Erco is now family-owned.

literature

Bercovici-Erco, Moïse . In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 9. Saur, Munich 1994, p. 254.

Web links

Moise Bercovici-Erco on artnet.de

Individual evidence

↑ See Bercovici-Erco, Moshe . In: Adrian M. Darmont: Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie des peintres, photographes et sculpteurs . Carnot, 2003, p. 41.
↑ Certified "Affidavit" from April 15, 1955 of his fellow prisoner Henry Rot Rubin, born on July 24, 1902, at that time residing in Recklinghausen, Milchpfad 19.

personal data
SURNAME	Bercovici-Erco, Moïse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bercovici-Erco, Moshe (real name); Bercovici, Moïse Erco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian engraver and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 1, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Iași
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 1944

[1] See Bercovici-Erco, Moshe . In: Adrian M. Darmont: Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie des peintres, photographes et sculpteurs . Carnot, 2003, p. 41.

[2] Certified "Affidavit" from April 15, 1955 of his fellow prisoner Henry Rot Rubin, born on July 24, 1902, at that time residing in Recklinghausen, Milchpfad 19.