Mané-Katz (Ed. Rene Kister, Les Grands Peintres, 1962) Album catalog de arta pictor evreu evrei lumea evreilor ghetto evreiesc Chagall Picasso 30 ill.

Autor: Pierre Mazars

Titlu: Mane-Katz. Les Grands Peintres

Editura: Rene Kister, Geneve

An aparitie: 1962

Nr. pagini: 37

Format mare

Hartie de calitate

Tip coperta: Cartonata cu Supracoperta

30 ilustratii (in text + pe hartie velina + heliogravuri)

starea cartii: foarte buna

Descriere: Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew: מאנה כץ), born Mane Leyzerovich Kats (1894–1962), was a Litvak painter of the School of Paris, born in Kremenchuk, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe.

Mané-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibiting in Petrograd; following the October Revolution, he traveled back to Kremenchuk, where he taught art. In 1921, due to the ongoing fighting in his hometown during the civil war, he moved once again to Paris. There he became friends with Pablo Picasso and other important artists, and was affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; together with other outstanding Jewish artists of that milieu, that include Chaim Soutine, Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Amadeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall and others; he is sometimes considered to be part of a group referred to specifically as the Jewish School of Paris.

In 1931, Mané-Katz's painting The Wailing Wall was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair.Early on, his style was classical and somber, but his palette changed in later years to bright, primary colors, with an emphasis on Jewish themes. His oils feature Hassidic characters, rabbis, Jewish musicians, beggars, yeshiva students and scenes from the East European shtetl.

Mané-Katz made his first trip to Mandate Palestine in 1928, and thereafter visited the country annually. He said his actual home was Paris, but his spiritual home was Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel.