Iosif Iser

Iosif Iser ( born May 21, 1881 in Bucharest, † April 25, 1958 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian painter of Jewish origin.

Iser grew up in Ploiesti. From 1899 to 1904 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Anton and Johann Caspar Ažbe Herterich. In 1904 he returned to Ploiesti, where he had his first solo exhibition. From 1905 he lived in Bucharest, where he worked as a cartoonist for various magazines. He participated in the exhibition Tinerimii artistice, and 1906 was his first personal exhibition in Bucharest instead.

From 1907 to 1909 he lived in Paris and studied at the Académie Ranson. He had contact with the circle of avant-garde painters of Montmartre, where he among other things, Constantin Brancusi and André Derain met. He also worked at this time for the satirical magazine Le Rire Les Témoins and.

Iser 1909 organized the first exhibition of modern art in the Athenaeum of Bucharest. During the First World War he was a soldier in front of Moldova, the painting soldiers (1917, in the National Museum of Bucharest ) testifies to this time. From 1921 to 1934 he lived in Paris again, before he finally returned to Romania.

In 1926 he participated in an exhibition of the Berlin Secession in the 1930s were exhibitions of his work in Paris, Bucharest, Brussels, The Hague and Amsterdam. With George Petrascu and Ştefan Popescu, he founded the artist group Arta. After the Second World War exhibitions of his works took place in New York ( 1948), Moscow and St. Petersburg (1956 ), Vienna (1957 ) and the Venice Biennale (1954). Iser 1955 became a member of the Academia Romana the.

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