Arthur Kolnik (1890-1972) - French artist.
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| Date of Birth | May 4, 1890 |
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| Date of death | 1972 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
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Biography
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Born on May 4, 1890 in the city of Stanislavov of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Ivano-Frankivsk , Ukraine , in a Jewish family. A father born in Lithuania worked as an accountant in a bank; mother, originally from Vienna , kept a dress store.
Arthur attended Polish elementary school for some time, then studied at the gymnasium, where he became interested in drawing. In 1908 he entered the Krakow Academy of Arts, studied in J. Mehoffer and J. Maleschevsky . For his student work he was awarded a silver medal. After graduating from the Academy, he spent some time in Wroclaw and Lviv , after which he returned to Stanislavov.
He participated in the First World War in the Austrian army. As an officer , he was enrolled in one of the infantry regiments. Already in August 1914, he participated in the Battle of Galicia , was wounded and was being treated at a Vienna hospital . [1] After recovery, he was found unfit for military service and assigned to the headquarters in Vienna. Here he met the Jewish-Austrian artist I. Kaufmann , who became his patron and, through his patronage, visited the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts as a listener - he studied in the workshop of G. Eichborn. He wrote his works in the style of impressionism and post-impressionism until the end of the 1920s. He was friendly with T. Makovsky and M. Kisling , as well as G. Klimt and E. Schiele .
In 1919, Kolnik settled in Chernivtsi , in the same year he got married. In the spring of 1920 was with an exhibition in the United States . He returned home in 1922, having traveled through Europe - France , Italy , Greece and Turkey . Until the end of the 1920s, he wrote and illustrated books. Fleeing the persecution of local anti-Semites, in 1931 he left for Paris with his wife and two children. Here, in order to feed his family, he worked in various simple jobs - as a retoucher in a photo studio, as a cartoonist in newspapers , and painted for fashion magazines. In forced emigration, he experienced a spiritual crisis and did little to paint. But at the same time he exhibited - in 1935 he visited in Buenos Aires , and in 1937 - in London .
With the beginning of the German occupation of France, in the fall of 1940, all members of the Kolnik family were arrested by the Vichy regime and sent to the Reesebed internment camp in the department of Haute-Garonne . They returned to Paris in August 1944. In 1948, the artist accepted French citizenship, and in the same year he was elected a member of the Association of Jewish Artists and Sculptors of France. In 1952, again, after many years, he visited New York , and in 1962 for the first time - in Israel . In 1967, a book about Arthur Kolnik, written by the critic and biographer of the artist M. Gauthier, was published in Paris. [2]
He died in 1972 in Paris. In 1982, the artist's works were exhibited at the Museum of Judaica in Chicago .
Proceedings
The artist's works are presented in the Chernivtsi Art Museum, the People’s Museum in Wroclaw (Poland), the Jewish Museum in New York, the Museum of Jewish Art in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Tel Aviv, as well as in other museums and private collections.