Chaim Soutine

Name: Chaim Soutine
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Against the Current

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An insatiable hunger for life defines the work of Chaïm Soutine, whose expressive paintings capture raw human vulnerability and a life lived on society's margins. His intensely coloured, impasto portraits and agitated landscapes brim with frenetic energy, reflecting both a desperate thirst for existence and profound alienation in a turbulent world. This catalogue spotlights Soutine's early masterpieces from 1919 to 1925, exploring themes of emigration, Jewish heritage, and the symbolic use of blood and animal carcasses, while tracing his lasting influence on art.
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Ideal for readers interested in modern art, expressionism, Jewish cultural history, and those fascinated by the emotional intensity conveyed through bold, unconventional artistry.

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An insatiable Hunger for Life

Clenched, raw and of a pressing urgentness: Chaïm Soutine's expressive paintings are testimonies to a sense of human vulnerability and an existence on the margins of society. Intensely coloured, his meaty impasto portraits are thrown onto the canvas with broad brushstrokes. His agitated, frenetic landscapes and the paintings of slaughtered animals are expressions of an intense hunger for life and, at the same time, a deep alienation in an unsteady world that offers no support.

Despite the recognition his work received, Soutine remained an outsider throughout his life, a stranger to the social manners of his adopted home in France. This catalogue focuses on the early masterpieces and series created between 1919 and 1925. Under the overarching theme of emigration and uprooting, the contributions reveal the traces of Soutine's Jewish origins in his work, illuminate the significance of his motifs from the fringes of society as well as of blood and animal carcasses as metaphors, and show the influences of Soutine's art up to the present day.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775755412

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 October 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 155 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer
Edited by Susanne Meyer-Büser
Text by Sophie Krebs
Text by Pascale Samuel
Text by Catherine Frèrejean
Text by Claire Bernardi
Text by Marta Dziewanska

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 220.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1060g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

CHAÏM SOUTINE (1893-1943) grew up in a shtetl near Minsk - a youth marked by poverty, religious rigor and social exclusion. In 1913 he arrived in Paris and moved into the artist residence "La Ruche", the "Beehive", working alongside artists such as Chagall and Modigliani. Fleeing the Nazis, he died in 1943, but the international attention his work had received since the 1920s continued to have great influence on post-war art, inspiring Abstract Expressionism, new figurative painting as well as contemporary artists.