Marek Szwarc was a painter and sculptor associated with the School of Paris, as well as with the Yiddish cultural avant-garde movement in Poland Yung-yidish.
13 Facts About Marek Szwarc
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Marek Szwarc was born in Zgierz, Poland, on 9 May 1892, the youngest of ten sons.
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From 1910 to 1914, Marek Szwarc lived and studied art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
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Marek Szwarc 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.
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Between 1914 and 1917, Marek 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 Hayim Nahman Bialik.
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Until the Second World War, Marek Szwarc lived in Paris and his paintings and sculptures were bought by collectors in Germany, Poland, the United States, and by several museums.
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In 1922 to 1923 Marek Szwarc contributed to the Berlin and Warsaw based avant-garde Yiddish Journal Albatros, edited by poet and publicist Uri Zvi Greenberg.
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Marek Szwarc participated in the important 1922 Dusseldorf Congress of the International Union of Progressive Artists, where signed its founding proclamation alongside Jankel Adler, and Stanislaw Kubicki, as representatives of the Polish Avant-Garde.
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Marek Szwarc exhibited in numerous leading galleries, including Israel Ber Neumann's New Art Circle Gallery in New York, in 1926, Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin, Lilla Gallery, Stockholm, and Ludwig Schames in Frankfurt.
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When Poland fell in 1939, Marek Szwarc volunteered for the Polish army in exile and after the occupation of France he escaped with the Polish army to Scotland, while his family fled via Lisbon to England.
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Marek Szwarc published two books dealing in large part with the life of her father.
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Marek Szwarc died suddenly at the age of 66, in Paris.
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Marek Szwarc exhibited in Sweden, Austria, France, Canada, Belgium, Poland, and several sculptures were bought by the French government.