Serge Poliakoff
Serge Poliakoff | |
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Russian, later French | |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Tachisme |
Serge Poliakoff (January 8, 1900 – October 12, 1969)
Biography
Serge Poliakoff was born in Moscow in 1900, the thirteenth of fourteen children. His father, a Kyrgyz, supplied the army with horses that he bred himself and also owned a racing stable. His mother was heavily involved with the church, and its religious icons fascinated him. He enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, but fled Russia in 1918. He arrived in Constantinople in 1920, living off the profits from his talent as a guitarist.
He went on to pass through Sofia, Belgrade, Vienna, and Berlin before settling in Paris in 1923, all the while continuing to play in Russian cabarets. In 1929 he enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. His paintings remained purely academic until he discovered, during his stay in London from 1935 to 1937, the abstract art and luminous colours of the Egyptian sarcophagi.It was a little afterwards that he met Wassily Kandinsky, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, and Otto Freundlich. Poliakoff held his first one-man Paris exhibition in 1945.[3]
With these influences, Poliakoff quickly came to be considered one of the most powerful painters of his generation. In 1947, he was trained by
In 1962 a room was given over to his paintings by the
In 2006, works by Poliakoff were chosen by the
In 2013, The
Exhibitions
- Serge Poliakoff, Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo (1970)
- Serge Poliakoff, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan (1983)
- Serge Poliakoff, Le rêve des formes, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris(2013)
- Serge Poliakoff, Galerie Applicat-Prazan, Paris (2013)
Works
- Available Paintings, Works on Paper and Biography Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
See also
- École de Paris
References
- ^ a b "Serge Poliakoff". Ketterer Kunst. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
- ^ a b "12 October". ifrance. Archived from the original on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
- ^ "Serge Poliakoff". Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ "Serge Poliakoff - MaM - Paris.fr". Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2013-09-27.
Sources
This article draws heavily on the fr:Serge Poliakoff article in the French-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of November 20, 2006.
- Jean Cassou, Poliakoff, Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil (Switzerland), 1963.
- ISBN 2-8258-0048-1).
- ISBN 3-00-002049-7)
- ISBN 2-8258-0044-9)
External links
- Artfacts.net containing a portrait of Poliakoff, and nine reproductions of his gouache and lithograph work.
- Lorenzelli Arte Milano: Serge Poliakoff Biography
- [1] - Serge Poliakoff, The Dream of Forms - Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris