Louis Marcoussis

Louis Marcoussis ( born November 14, 1878 in Warsaw, † October 22, 1941 in Cusset, France; Ludwig Casimir Ladislas actually Marcus ) was a French graphic artist and painter of Jewish origin from Poland. He is assigned to the Cubism.

Life and work

Marcoussis studied law at Warsaw shortly before he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1901 took up his art studies with Jan Stanislawski. He came to Paris in 1903, where he was briefly a student of Jules -Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian. There a friendship with Roger de La Fresnaye and Lotiron developed. Marcoussis presented in 1905 at the Salon d' Automne in 1906 at the Salon des Independants and was committed to the cubism since 1907. His living he earned by illustrations and caricatures for numerous satirical magazines. In 1906 he met Edgar Degas, 1910 Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire. With numerous artists, he was a friend, especially with Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, Jean Metzinger, Jacques Villon, Albert Gleizes, Marcel Duchamp and. After an affair with Marcelle Humbert (Eva Gouel ), which left him to join Picasso, 1913, he married Alice Halicka, a French painter. From 1914 to 1919 he made ​​war service in the French army.

He traveled in the twenties, among others, the United States. In 1933 he was appointed professor of printmaking at the Académie Schlaefer in Paris. When war broke out in 1940, he was forced to flee ( at Vichy), where he died in October of the following year before the German troops to Cusset.

Violon, bouteilles de Marc et cartes, 1919

Composition cubiste au portrait, poisson et clair de lune, 1926

Poire verte et couteau, without date

Solo Exhibitions

Works

• City with Viaduct ( Vienna, Österreichische Galerie ), 1930, oil on canvas

Source

• Art Archives Werner Kittel in the Central Archives of the National Museums in Berlin