Georges Kars, un Bohémien à Paris

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme

A major painter of the École de Paris now largely overlooked, the Czech artist Georges Kars regains his rightful place at the mahJ in this first major retrospective in over forty years. Georges Kars (Prague, 1880 – Genève, 1945) belongs to that generation of artists from Central Europe who made Paris one of the leading centres of artistic modernity. Trained in Munich before settling permanently in France in 1919, he developed an original body of work in which the legacy of Expressionism and Cubism gradually gave way to a deeply personal figuration, grounded in the sturdiness of construction and the fullness of forms. Surrounded by Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Berthe Weill, Paul Poiret, Jules Pascin, Juan Gris, Suzanne Valadon and Chana Orloff, he fully took part in the artistic life of the interwar period. Yet his work gradually fell into oblivion after his suicide in Genève in 1945. Bringing together exceptional loans from the leading Czech institutions, this exhibition traces his career, highlights the connections between the artistic scenes of Prague and Paris, and restores to Georges Kars the place he holds in the history of twentieth-century art.

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