Lou Albert-Lasard
Lou Albert - Lasard, also known as Lou Albert - Lazard or Loulou Albert - Lazard written; in the Journal of Youth also called Lulu Lazard ( born November 10, 1885 in Metz, † 21 July 1969, Paris) was a German - French painter of modern times.
Life
Lou Lasard was born in 1885 in what was then related to Germany Metz in Lorraine as a child of a Jewish banking family. From 1908 to 1914 she studied art first in Munich, where she lived with her sister Ilse Heller Lazard, and then in Paris. In 1909 she married against his parents' will, the 26 -year-older Augsburg chemist and inventor Dr. Eugene Albert ( 1856-1929 ), son of Joseph Albert. From this marriage the daughter of Ingo de Croux -Albert comes from ( 1911-1997 ). The marriage was only on paper, as Albert Lasard 1914 a love affair with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke began, with whom she lived until 1916 in Vienna and Munich. She moved in an artist's environment in which she was known among other things, Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig, Paul Klee and Oskar Kokoschka.
After a two-year stay in Switzerland, she joined the avant-garde artists association November Group in Berlin. Her works from this period consisted primarily of drawn and etched portraits of her friends. In 1928 she settled in Paris in and became part of the artistic community in the Montparnasse district. She would make friends with Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and Robert Delaunay.
Albert Lasard was with her daughter often traveling in North Africa, India, Tibet and other countries. Drawings and watercolors, which she brought back from these trips have already been issued in 1939.
In May 1940, Lou Albert - Lasard and her daughter were interned by the French in Gurs, but released again in August. During her time in Gur she created drawings and watercolors that show portraits of her fellow prisoners and scenes of camp life.
After her release, Albert Lasard returned to Paris. In the 1950s, she went with her daughter again while traveling, usually in caravans, on which they processed their impressions in watercolors and lithographs.
Lou Albert - Lasard died in July 1969 in Paris. Her grave is located in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Division 27
A press release from the Berlin trade Commissariat of art offenses in November 2013 According since 2003, a Berlin art teacher and gallery owner who allegedly managed the estate of Albert Lasard, brought about a hundred fakes of watercolors, gouaches and hand-colored lithographs in circulation.
Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Work in public and private collections
- Berlin Gallery. National Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin
- Several works from her time in Gur today are part of the art collection in the Beit Lohamei Haghetaot ( Ghetto Fighters' House ) in kibbutz Lochamej haGeta'ot in Israel.