Arthur Segal

Arthur Aron Segal ( born July 13, 1875 in Iasi, Romania, † June 23, 1944 in London) was a Romanian painter.

Life

Aron Sigalu grew up as the son of a Jewish banker on in Botosani and came 1892 to Berlin, where he studied with Eugen Bracht. In 1904 he married his cousin in Berlin Ernestine. The two took an active part in the Berlin art scene. In 1910 he founded with 26 other artists, the New Secession in response to the Berlin Secession, but where he also had several exhibitions, which he left in 1912 again from internal contradictions. In 1912 he exhibited at Herwarth Walden, who published it in the storm. 1910-1911 Segal traveled to Paris.

Between 1914 and 1920, Segal developed the principle of equivalence, in which he has the same meaning gave to his objects and figures in a set on the image grid of rectangles. As part of this he withdrew increasingly from the objectivity. Colors he dismantled prismatic, given his pictures.

1920 Segal returned back to Berlin. He was in the meantime during the First World War in Switzerland, where he had several exhibitions in Zurich with the Dadaist Hans Arp. In 1919 he joined the November Group A, in their exhibition from 1921 to 1925 and from 1927 to 1931 participated in, and was soon appointed to the Board.

From 1920 to 1933, he spoke in Berlin- Charlottenburg its own art school, which was a meeting place for artists.

In the 1920s he participated in supportive with Otto Dix, George Grosz and Käthe Kollwitz in actions of trade unions and the SPD to the eight-hour day. 1933, the family had Segal - he had now daughter and son - to escape from Germany. It went over Mallorca, which he then had to leave because of the civil war, to London. There he founded in 1936 the " Arthur Segal Painting School ", which existed until 1977. Arthur Segal died after an air raid on London of heart failure.