Georges Kars
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Self-portrait, 1929 (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg)
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| Born | Kralupy, Tchecoslovaquia |
| Died | 5 February 1945 (aged 63) Geneva, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Czech |
Georges Kars (Georges Karpeles or Georg Karpeles - Jiri Karpeles) (1882 in Kralupy – 1945 in Genève) was a Czech painter known for his landscapes and nude paintings.
Georges Kars was born to a German Jewish family. His father was a miller. When he was 18, Kars was sent to study in art in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Stuck. From 1905 he travelled to Madrid where he met Juan Gris and immersed himself in the painting styles of Velasquez and Goya. In 1908, Kars arrived in Paris and settled in Montmartre at the time of the Cubist revolution, which also had an influence on his work, he met Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo well connected to the artist community. His work was interrupted by the First World War which he spent on the Galician Front and in Russian captivity. He renewed his friendship with Pascin and frequented Chagall, Apollinaire, Max Jacob, the art critic Maurice Raynal and the Greek painter Demetrius Galanis. He spent the summer of 1923 in Ségalas, Hautes-Pyrénées region, with Suzanne Valadon’s family.
An exhibition of his work takes place at the Berthe Weill gallery in 1928.
In 1933, he bought a house in Tossa de Mar near Barcelona. Along with a group of artists (Rafael Benet, Enric Casanovas and Alberto del Castillo) he inaugurated the Museu Municipal De Tossa Del Mar 1 September 1935 as a modern art museum. He returned to live in Caulaincourt street in Montmartre, Paris, in 1936.
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