Jesekiel David Kirszenbaum

Jesekiel Kirszenbaum David ( born August 15, 1900 in Staszów (Poland ); † August 1, 1954 in Paris) was a Polish- Jewish painter and caricaturist.

Life and work

Kirszenbaum (also known in Germany as a cherry tree) was born the son of a rabbi. In 1920 he came to Germany. Three years he worked in Westphalian coal mines to finance his studies at the Bauhaus in Weimar. He studied from 1923 at the Bauhaus in Weimar, inter alia, under Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger. In 1925 he moved to Berlin. There he drew caricatures for the Berlin workers' press, about the magazines joke, cross-sectional, red pepper, Magazine for all and The Red Flag. Mostly he worked under the pseudonym Duwdivani or Duvdivani.

In 1933 he emigrated to Paris and became part of the Ecole de Paris. During the Second World War Kirszenbaum came in under Bellac in the Limousin. Kirszenbaums works were the Nazis as degenerate art. His studio in Paris was destroyed by the Germans. About 600 of his works were lost. His wife Helma was arrested in 1944, deported and murdered by the Gestapo. He himself lived in the Limousin and turned after 1945 returned to painting. Kirszenbaum exhibited, among others, in Limoges and Paris and has traveled to Brazil and Morocco. In 1954, he died of cancer.

In his paintings Kirszenbaum processed his Polish-Jewish roots and later also in the pursuit of experiences with the means of expressionism.

Exhibitions (selection)

• Weimar, 1923
• Berlin, 1927
• Utrecht, 1931
• Amsterdam, 1932
• Paris, 1935
• Limoges, 1945
• Lyon, 1946, Maison de la Pensee Francaise
• Paris 1947, Galerie Quatre Chemins
• Sao Paulo, 1948
• Rio the Janeiro, 1948
• Paris, 1951, Galerie Andre Weil
• Paris, 1953, Galerie Au Pont des Arts
• Jerusalem, 1954, Center for advanced art Tsavta
• Paris, 1963, Gallery Nimble