Marek Szwarc
| Marek Szwarc | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 9, 1892 Zgierz, near Lodz, Poland |
| Died |
December 28, 1958 (aged 66) Paris |
| Nationality | Polish, later French |
| Movement | School of Paris, Yung-yidish |
| Website | http://marekszwarc.com/ |
Marek Szwarc (May 9, 1892 – December 28, 1958) was a painter and sculptor associated with the School of Paris (Ecole de Paris), as well as with the Yiddish cultural avant-garde movements in Poland Khalyastre, and Yung-yidish.
He was born in Zgierz, Poland. From 1910 to 1914, Szwarc lived and studied art at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. He boarded at la Ruche together with Soutine, Marc Chagall, Modigliani and Kremegne, and together with Tchaikov and Lichtenstein inaugurated the first Jewish art journal Makhmadim (Precious Ones). In 1913 he exhibited his first sculpture, Eve, in the Salon d'Automne.
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.
During the First World War Szwarc returned to Poland. In 1919 he met and married his wife, Guina, a writer, and together they returned to Paris after the war. Until the Second World War, Szwarc lived in Paris and his paintings and sculptures were bought by collectors in Germany, Poland, the United States, and by several museums. It was during this period between the wars that he produced some of his most outstanding and original work in hammered copper, exhibited in the Salon des Tuileries and the subject of a monograph by the celebrated art critic Louis Vauxcelles. Vauxcelles writes of Szwarc:
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