Pinchus Kremegne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pinchus Kremegne

Litvak-French artist, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer

Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1890

Place of Birth: Žaludok, Belarus

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1981

Profession: painter, sculptor

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Pinchus Kremegne

  • Pinchus Krémègne, aka Pinchus Kremegne (Hebrew: ???? ??????; Russian: ?????? ???????; 28 July 1890 – 5 April 1981), was a Litvak-French artist, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer. He was a native of Zhaludak near Lida, and was a friend of both Chaim Soutine and Michel Kikoine.
  • He studied sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Art.
  • He became a target of the pogroms because he was a Jew and fled to Paris in 1912.
  • In Paris, Kremegne joined the group of painters of Montparnasse and soon became one of the respected residents of La Ruche.
  • In 1915, he gave up sculpture in order to dedicate himself to painting.
  • It was he who encouraged Soutine to come to Paris.
  • He left Paris to live in a small town in the Pyrenees called Ceret.
  • This village, which is a little inland from Collioure, attracted other painters such as Soutine.
  • Although Soutine did not like the town very much, he completed many paintings there over a couple of years.
  • He never settled but his compatriot Kremegne had a house built there around 1960.
  • This small unassuming house, a reflection of the man himself, is nestled into the mountain and overlooks the village. There was a falling out between the two men perhaps stemming from some ingratitude shown by Soutine towards a mutual 'mecene' or benefactor who had helped out the two impoverished artists during their early careers in Paris.
  • Kremegne's house has new occupants and it is called La Miranda del Convent.
  • Later Ceret was to attract other painters such as Picasso.
  • The Picasso walk meanders by Kremegne's house and Ceret has an important museum exhibiting artists such as Matisse, Picasso, and others.
  • There are a few Kremegne paintings on exhibition there as well. Kremegne died in Ceret. Underestimated as an artist today, he is overshadowed by Soutine and Chagall.
  • He was remembered with a posthumous one-man show in the Quartier Les Halles in Paris in the 1990s.
  • A more structured vision of nature than Soutine's, Kremegne's last paintings prefigure the work of painters such as Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach in England.

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