Lou Albert-Lasard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French-German painter
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Place of Birth: Metz, Grand Est, France
About Lou Albert-Lasard
- Lou Albert-Lasard (1885 in Metz – July 1969 in Paris) was an Expressionist painter. She was born in 1885 in Metz (then part of Germany), daughter to a Jewish banking family.
- From 1908 until 1914, she studied art in Munich, where she and her sister, Ilse Heller-Lazard lived, and then in Paris.
- In 1909, she married Eugene Albert, a chemist 30 years her senior, (1856–1929) and had a daughter, Ingo de Croux-Albert (1911–1997).
- Separating from her husband, she studied with the artist Fernand Léger.
- She also had connections with the Belgian avant-garde magazine "Het Overzicht", which was directed by Michel Seuphor and Jozef Peeters. In 1914-1916, while still legally married, she had an affair with German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
- She lived with Rilke from 1914 until 1916 in Vienna, and moved in an artist circle that included, among others, Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig, Paul Klee, and Oskar Kokoschka.
- After breaking up with Rilke, she lived in Switzerland. After 12 years in Switzerland, she moved to Berlin and joined an avant-garde artist group known as the Novembergruppe.
- Her work consisted mainly of drawings and etchings of her friends.
- In 1928, she returned to Paris and was part of the Montparnasse art society.
- She befriended Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and Robert Delaunay. She traveled with her daughter to North Africa, India, Tibet, and other countries.
- Drawings and watercolors from these travels were shown in 1939. In May, 1940, she and her daughter were interned at Gurs in southwestern France, but were later released.
- While imprisoned, she painted and drew portraits of fellow prisoners and camp scenes.
- Several of her works signed done in Gurs(signed "Mabull") are included in the art collection of Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (The Ghetto Fighters' House Museum).After her release, she returned to Paris.
- In her 50s, she again traveled with her daughter, often in a mobile home, painting her experiences via watercolor and lithography.
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