Marek Szwarc
Marek Szwarc | |
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Born | Zgierz, near Łódź, Poland | May 9, 1892
Died | December 28, 1958 Paris | (aged 66)
Nationality | Polish, later French |
Movement | School of Paris, Yung-yidish |
Website | http://marekszwarc.com/ |
Marek Szwarc (9 May 1892 – 28 December 1958) was a painter and sculptor associated with the School of Paris (École de Paris),[1] as well as with the Yiddish cultural avant-garde movement in Poland Yung-yidish.[2]
Early years
Marek Szwarc was born in Zgierz, Poland, on 9 May 1892, the youngest of ten sons.[3] His eldest brother was Polish-Portuguese mining engineer and historian Samuel Schwarz.[3] Their father Isucher Moshe Szwarc (1859–1939) was an Orthodox Jew heavily involved in Zgierz's Jewish community and the late Haskalah movement.[3] Isucher was a fervent Zionist, participating in the First Zionist Congress and subsequent congresses.[3]
From 1910 to 1914, Marek lived and studied art at the
Between 1914 and 1917, Szwarc traveled through the Russian Empire, spending time in Odessa and Kiev, and working in the Jewish literary circle of Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Ahad Ha-Am, and Ḥayim Naḥman Bialik. In 1918 he founded – together with Moyshe Broderzon and a group of visual artists centered around Yitskhok Broyner and Yankl Adler – the Yung-yidish, the first Yiddish artistic avant-garde group in Poland.[4]
During the
"By virtue of its poetic concepts, by its firm and generous execution, by the sense of its cadenced dispositions, by the sharp graphics written in view of the material and which commands this very material, it is apparent that Marek Szwarc is in harmony with the most audacious innovators of our times, who seek him out and see him as a maître".[5]
In 1922 to 1923 Szwarc contributed to the Berlin and Warsaw based avant-garde Yiddish Journal Albatros (אלבאַטראָס), edited by poet and publicist Uri Zvi Greenberg.[6]
Szwarc participated in the important 1922 Düsseldorf Congress of the International Union of Progressive Artists, where signed its founding proclamation alongside Jankel Adler, and Stanislaw Kubicki, as representatives of the Polish Avant-Garde.[7]
Szwarc exhibited in numerous leading galleries, including Israel Ber Neumann's New Art Circle Gallery in New York, in 1926, Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin, Lilla Gallery, Stockholm, and Ludwig Schames in Frankfurt.[8]
In 1929, the distinguished critic and novelist Ludwig Lewinsohn described Szwarc as an "interesting phenomenon in the history of civilization" writing that his "profound and instinctive Jewishness will in the long run broaden and not narrow the appeal of his arresting and vital work".[8]
Later years
When
After the war he returned to Paris with his wife and daughter,
Death
Marek Szwarc died suddenly at the age of 66, in Paris. His wife, Guina died in Paris in 1973. In 2010 the French publishing house ressouvenances.fr brought out an edition of Szwarc's memoirs, which he dictated to his wife Eugenia (Guina) Markowa in 1954 titled Marek Szwarc: Memoires entre deux mondes.
Works and exhibitions
Szwarc's work, broadly identified in style with the
He exhibited in Sweden, Austria, France, Canada, Belgium, Poland, and several sculptures were bought by the French government.
The artist's works are on display in museums, public halls, places of worship, and private collections in Poland, Israel, Montreal, Caracas, the United States, and England.
See also
References
- ^ Nieszawer, Nadine. "Nieszawer & Princ Bureau d'expertise -". ecoledeparis.org. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
- ^ "YIVO | Khalyastre". yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Goldenberg, Flora (May 26, 2020). "A Curious Virgin Mary in the Heart of the Jewish Quarter: The Szwarc/Schwarz Family Saga – Part 1". Jewish Tours Paris 2020. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
- ^ "YIVO | Yung-yidish". yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
- ^ "Marek Szwarc". marekszwarc.com. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
- JSTOR 20689408.
- ISBN 978-3-631-81416-1.
- ^ a b Szwarc, Marek. Otto Schneid Papers--Correspondence before and after 1939--Szwarc, Marek (Box 10, Folder 15) (in French). Fisher - University of Toronto.
- ^ "Fonds d'atelier de Marek Szwarc Nouvelles acquisitions dans les collections du Mahj". mahj.org. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
External links
- Official website
- Nadine Nieszawer, Ecole de Paris
- Otto Schneid papers, correspondence with Marek Szwarc and essays by Schneid and Ludwig Lewisohn.
- Works by Marek Szwarc in the collection of the Musee d'art et d'Histoire du Judaisme in Paris.