Moise Kisling
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Moise Kisling (born January 22, 1891 in Krakow , Austria-Hungary , † April 29, 1953 in Sanary-sur-Mer , Var department , Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur , France), French name form Moïse Kisling , was a French Polish-Jewish painter.
Life
Mojźesz Kisling studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow , where he was encouraged to go to Paris , which was then the center of artistic creativity.
In 1910 Kisling moved to the Paris district of Montmartre and a few years later to the Montparnasse district . At the beginning of the First World War he volunteered for service in the French Foreign Legion and in 1915 he was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Somme , for which he was granted French citizenship .
Kisling lived and worked in the Montparnasse district, where he frequented the La Ruche artists' settlement . He was friends with many of his contemporaries, including his neighbor Amedeo Modigliani , who painted him in 1916 (now in the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris ). For a while he lived with Władysław Jahl . The style used in his landscape paintings is similar to that of Marc Chagall , but he was a master at depicting the female body, and his surreal nudes and portraits received the greatest acclaim.
At the turn of the year 1938/1939, Kisling was friends with Eva Busch, who had emigrated to France .
After the occupation of France in World War II , Kisling fled to the USA because, as a Jew in France, he was not safe from the attack of the Germans.
The largest collection of Kisling's works is in the Musée Petit Palais in Geneva .
Pictures (selection)
- Nu assis ( Kiki de Montparnasse )
- Portrait de Madeleine Lebeau
- Woman in a Shawl
- Paysage de Sanary
- Femme espagnole
- Jeune femme blonde
- Femme nue assise
- Nu allongé
- Port de Tamaris
- Portrait de jeune fille brune
- Buste nu couché
- Femme en interior
literature
- R. Treydel: Kisling, Moise . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 80, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023185-4 , p. 343 f.
- Carl Einstein : Moise Kisling. In: Works , Volume 2: 1919–1926. Medusa, Berlin 1981, pp. 205–213 (first published in: Die Junge Kunst. Volume 31, Leipzig 1922)
- Joseph Kessel : Kisling , New York: Harry Abrams 1971
- Moise Kisling . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 279-280 .
- Moise Kisling . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 52-53 .
- Moise Kisling . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 142-143 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Moise Kisling in the catalog of the German National Library
- Friends of Montparnasse , painted by Marie Vorobieff- Stebelska ( Marevna ) in 1962, depicting herself, Diego Rivera and their daughter Marika on the far left, and on the right of them their mutual friends from Montparnasse, namely (top from left to right :) Ilja Ehrenburg , Chaim Soutine , Amedeo Modigliani and his wife Jeanne Hébuterne , Max Jacob , gallery owner Leopold Zborowski, and below right Moise Kisling.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eva Busch: And yet. An autobiography . Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich 1991, p. 89 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kisling, Moise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kisling, Moïse |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1953 |
| Place of death | Sanary-sur-Mer , France |