Samson Flexor
Samson Flexor (born September 9, 1907 in Soroca , Bessarabia , † July 31, 1971 in São Paulo ) was a French and Brazilian painter .
life and work
Samson was educated at a private school in Soroca, studied at the art school in Odessa and in Bucharest. From 1922 to 1924 he studied in Brussels at the Belgian Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts), in 1924 with Lucien Simon at the Paris National School of Fine Arts (École Nationale des Beaux-Arts) and attended the Sorbonne art history lectures. He moved to Paris with his family in the late 1920s and in 1929 the family received French citizenship. He did military service in the Alps and married Tatiana Yablokov. In 1933 his wife died in childbed, which led him into an existential and creative crisis. He converted to Catholicism and painted religious works. In 1939 he married Magda Mezhicher and their first son was born. During the Second World War he was a member of the French resistance. Since he had to flee Paris, he settled with the family in Normandy. He visited Brazil in 1946 and moved to São Paulo in 1948. His painting subsequently became abstract. In 1951, Flexor founded the Atelier-Abstração in Brazil, where works by the Brazilian contemporary abstract painters Jacques Douchez , Norberto Nicola , Leopoldo Raimo , Alberto Teixeira, Wega Nery , Charlotta Adlerova , Ernestina Karman , Iracema Arditi and Gisela Eichbaum were exhibited. In 1961 he opened the second abstract studio. The only non-abstract works of art by him in Brazil are the frescoes for the Church of Nossa Senhora de Fátima in 1948 and those for the Church of Nossa Senhora do Socorro Perpétuo in São Paulo from 1958 to 1960. A comprehensive exhibition took place on his 100th birthday one hundred of his works took place in the National Art Museum of Moldova in Chișinău .
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1927: Galerie Campagne Première, Paris
- 1928: Galerie Jeune Peinture, Paris
- 1929: Galerie Le Cadre, Brussels
- 1948: Galerie Roux-Hentschel, Paris
- 1948: Galeria Domus, São Paulo
- 1952: Galeria Oxumaré, Salvador
- 1957: Roland de Aenlle Gallery, New York
- 1960: Galeria São Luís, São Paulo
- 1961: Galeria Aremar, Campinas
- 1961: Casa do Artista Plástico, São Paulo
- 1962: Ministério de Instrucción Publica y Prevision Social, Montevideo
- 1963: Galeria Gunar, Düsseldorf
- 1963: Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
- 1963: Embaixada do Brasil, Lisbon
- 1963: George Bongers Gallery, Paris
- 1963: Galerie Hans Maercklin, Stuttgart
- 1964: Câmara do Comércio do Brasil in Portugal, Lisbon
- 1964: Galeria Bonino, Rio de Janeiro
- 1964: São Paulo SP - Obras Recentes de Flexor, na Galeria São Luís
- 1965: Genebra (Suíça) - Individual, no Museu Rath
- 1966: Clube de Arte, Santos
- 1967: Banco de Minas Gerais, São Paulo
- 1969: Documenta Galeria de Arte, São Paulo
- 1970: Galeria Girassol, Campinas
- 1970: Chelsea Art Gallery, São Paulo
literature
- Rainer Guldin, Anke Finger, Gustavo Bernardo: Vilém Flusser (1920–1991): A life in the bottomlessness, 2009, ISBN 978-38252-3045-6
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flexor, Samson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French and Brazilian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soroca , Bessarabia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1971 |
| Place of death | São Paulo |