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Moïse Kisling

"Painting is not drawing. It must sing."

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Notes of biography

Moise Kisling was born in 1891 in Krakow, Poland. From a young age, he attends the School of Fine Arts in his hometown. He trains under the painter Pankiewicz, a representative of impressionism. Pankiewicz’s quickly realizes the talent of his brilliant student, and directs him towards Paris.
Moise Kisling arrives in the French capital in 1910. It’s a time where the country is in great intellectual anxiety. The artist is attracted by sorrowful figures. It’s the beginning of the war. Kisling, on the first day, enlists in the Foreign Legion; wounded, he acquires French nationality in 1914. He has already developed his own way to express himself pictorially.
His studio, immediately after the war, becomes an extraordinary meeting place for artists; Derain and Modigliani frequent his studio where a contemporary spirit reigns, but also writers such as Max Jacob, Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet. Little by little, with only the sentiment of fraternal pity, soon disappears; Kisling becomes a painter of “joie de vivre”. His first solo exhibition is organized in Paris in 1919 at the Druet Gallery. Moise Kisling will exhibit in most of the Parisien Salons at this time, he will equally participate in numerous exhibitions abroad.
The artist paints lovely nudes and Mediterranean landscapes. Kisling will again serve France in the second world war, before he leaves for California. He returns to Paris in 1946. The art of Kisling has a particularity of not being of any style, man defying himself! The artist, passionate, brings to his creation sumptuousness of color, richness of material, and an artistic care of dealing with his subjects. A retrospective of his work was organized in 1984 at the National Gallery of the Grand Palais in Paris.
Moise Kisling died in 1953 in Sanary-sur-mer, in the Var, in southern France.

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Complete work(s)

Complete work(s)
*« Moïse Kisling : Peintures, gouaches », Jean Kisling, 4 vol., Ed. Jean Kisling ou Ed. Canale, Paris, 1971, 1982, 1995 et 2008 All the complete works

Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « Moïse Kisling », G. Gabory, Ed. Librairie Gallimard, Paris, 1926
  • « Etude, Moïse Kisling », Gabory, Les peintres français nouveau, Gallimard, 1928
  • « Moïse Kisling, 1891-1953 », G. Charensol, Ed. De Clermont, Paris, 1948
  • « Rétrospective Kisling », Brayer et H. Troyat, Cat., Grand Palais, 1984
  • « Kisling, centenaire 1891-1953 », Tasset, Cat., Ed. Galerie D. Malingue, 1991
  • « L'Ecole de Paris », J.-L. Andral, S. Krebs, coll. Découvertes, Ed. Gallimard, 2000
  • « L'Ecole de Paris, 1904-1929, la part de l'Autre », coll., Ed. Ass. Paris-Musées, 2000
  • « Kisling », coll., cat. d'expo., Musée de Lodève, Ed. E&C, 2008
  • « Kisling, prince de Montparnasse », Jacques Lambert, Ed. de Paris, 2011
  • « Artistes juifs de l'Ecole de Paris - 1905-1939 », collectif., Somogy Ed. D'Art, 2015
To read from the artist :
  • No books referenced.
Website :
www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kisling

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+ SCHOOL OF PARIS MONTPARNASSE / 1915-1935 / Chaïm Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz, etc.
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