Pinchus Kremegne

Pinchus Kremegne (also Krémègne or Kremen , Russian Пинхус Кремень ; * July 28, 1890 in Schaludok near Lida / Belarus ; † April 5, 1981 in Céret / France ), was a French painter of Russian-Jewish descent.

Life

Pinchus Kremegne was the youngest of seven children in a Russian-Jewish family of craftsmen. His siblings emigrated to the United States from Russia after attending anti-tsarist meetings.

Despite the Jewish ban on images , he was able to attend the art school in Vilnius in 1909 , where he studied sculpture and first met Chaim Soutine .

After Jews in Russia were forbidden to acquire a passport , he secretly left Russia in 1912 and traveled to Paris . Here he settled in the La Ruche artists' colony in the 15th arrondissement . The majority of foreign artists who live here are later referred to as the first École de Paris . Kremegne made friends in particular with Chaim Soutine, Modigliani , Fernand Léger , Marc Chagall and André Derain .

In 1914 he exhibited three sculptures in the Salon des Indépendants . That was when the rayon school began , in which Kremegne showed an interest.

During the First World War , Kremegne stayed in Paris, where some art dealers such as Paul Guillaume and Leopold Zborowski were interested in his work.

In 1923 he met Birgit Strömbäck, governess of the Nobel family, whom he married in the Montparnasse district . The next year his son Fred Kremen was born. After successes in the 1920s, many artists had because of the global economic crisis, struggling with financial difficulties. In 1939 his wife and son moved to Sweden , his wife's home. After the French defeat in June 1940, Kremegne fled to the Corrèze department , where he lived as a farm worker until the end of the war.

In 1945 he returned to Paris, where he found his studio intact. He bought a plot of land in Céret in the south of France and separated from his wife. After several exhibitions in Paris and abroad, he commuted between Paris and Céret until the end of his life, where he died in 1981 at the age of 91. He was buried on the Cimetière Montparnasse .

literature

• George Waldemar: Krémègne. Editions “Le Triangle”, Paris 1930.
• Gaston Diehl: Pinchus Krémègne, l'expressionnisme sublimé. = Pinchus Krémègne, sublimated expressionsim. Navarin editeur, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-86827-057-3 .
• Joséphine Matamoros, Gérard Miller: Pinkus Krémègne. 1890-1990. Musée d'art moderne de Céret, Céret 1990, ISBN 2-901298-04-4 (exhibition, Musée d'art moderne de Céret, April 13 - June 15, 1990).
• Nadine Nieszawer, Marie Boyé, Paul Fogel: Peintres juifs a Paris. 1905-1939. École de Paris. Éditions Denoël, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-207-25142-X .