Raphael Soyer

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Raphael Soyer (born December 25, 1899 in Borisoglebsk (today: Voronezh Oblast ), Russian Empire , † November 4, 1987 in New York City , USA ) was an American painter, draftsman and lithographer of the 20th century.

Raphael Soyer, modeled by Eugenie Gershoy around 1969

Life

Soyer, like his twin brother and other brothers, was born in Russia as the children of the Jewish scholar, author and teacher Abraham Soyer (1867-1940). The family emigrated to the United States with their five children in 1912, where they last settled in the New York Bronx . He began his artistic training at the Cooper Union , where he met his lifelong friend Chaim Gross, among others . Other educational institutions in New York were the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York , where his teachers included Guy Pene du Bois and Boardman Robinson . It was during this time that he learned about the gritty, city-related issues of the Ashcan School members and became one of the representatives of American realism .

Other topics Soyers also included portraits of friends and family, nudes and again and again the city of New York and its people. All his life he painted realistically, the trends of painting of the 1940s and 1950s remained alien to him. In 1930 he began teaching at the John Reed Club in New York, an institution close to the American socialists. He also taught at the Art Students League , the New School for Social Research and the National Academy of Design . In the 1930s he taught as part of the Works Progress Administration's government program as a participant in the Federal Art Project .

The American art collector Victor Ganz began collecting in the early 1940s with the purchase of works by Louis Eilshemius , Jules Pascin and Raphael Soyer. Soyers' younger twin brothers, Moses Soyer and Isaac Soyer, were also painters.

In 1951, Raphael Soyer was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy . Soyer died of cancer. He was married; the couple had a daughter.

Exhibitions

Since the early 1930s, Soyer's works have been shown regularly in the annual or biennial exhibitions. For example in the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan , the Art Institute of Chicago , the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC , the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine arts .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "S" / Soyer, Raphael NA 1951 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 16, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org

Works in public collections

You can find them in the following collections, among others

Publications

  • A Painters Pilgrimage: An Account of a Journey with Drawings by the Author . Crown Publishers, 1962.
  • Homage to Thomas Eakins etc. Thomas Yoseloff, 1966.
  • Raphael Soyer, Self-Revealment: A Memoir . Random House, 1969.
  • Diary of an Artist , New Republic Books, 1977. The book was awarded a gold medal by the National Arts Club in 1979 .

literature

  • Abram Lerner: Soyer since 1960 . published for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, USA 1982.
  • Frank Gettings: Raphael Soyer: sixty-five Years of Printmaking , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA 1982, ISBN 0-874744717 .

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personal data
SURNAME Soyer, Raphael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, draftsman, and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Borisoglebsk , today: Voronezh Oblast , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1987
Place of death New York City , USA