Raphael Soyer

Raphael Soyer ( born December 25, 1899 in Borisoglebsk (today: Voronezh oblast ), Russian Empire; † 4 November 1987 in New York City, USA) was an American painter, draftsman and lithographer of the 20th century.

Life

Soyer was, as well as his brothers, born as children of a Jewish scholar, author and teacher in Russia. The family emigrated in 1912 with her ​​five children in the United States, where she most recently settled in the Bronx, New York. He began his artistic training at the Cooper Union, where he learned, among other things characterize his lifelong friend Chaim Gross. Other training schools were in New York, the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York, where his teachers, among others Guy Pene du Bois and Boardman Robinson were. During this time he learned the dark, city -related issues of the members of the Ashcan School, and became one of the representatives of the American realism.

Other topics Soyers were also portraits of friends and family, record and again the city of New York and its people. All his life he painted realistic, the flows of the painting of the 1940s and 1950s remained alien to him. In 1930 he began teaching at the John Reed Club in New York, a facility that was close to the American socialists. He also taught at the Art Students League, the New School for Social Research and the National Academy of Design. In the 1930s, he taught as part of the government program of the Works Progress Administration as a participant in the Federal Art Project.

The American art collector Victor Quite began his collecting activities in the early 1940s with the purchase of works by Louis Eilshemius, Jules Pascin and Raphael Soyer. The younger twin brothers Soyer, Moses Soyer and Isaac Soyer, were also painters.

Soyer died from cancer. He was married; the couple had a daughter.

Exhibitions

Since the early 1930s, Soyer work has been shown regularly in the annual or bi -annual exhibitions. For example, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Works in public collections

You are, among others, in the following collections

  • Museum of Modern Art (MOMA ), Manhattan, New York City, USA
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
  • Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge (Massachusetts ), USA
  • Harvard University, Cambridge ( Massaxchusetts ), United States
  • Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA
  • New York Public Library, Manhattan, New York City, USA
  • Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA

Publications

  • A Painter's Pilgrimage: An Account of a Journey with Drawings by the Author. Crown Publishers, 1962.
  • Homage to Thomas Eakins etc.. Yoseloff Thomas, 1966.
  • Raphael Soyer, self- revealment: A Memoir. Random House, 1969.
  • Diary of an Artist, New Republic Books, 1977. The book was in 1979 awarded the Gold Medal of the National Arts Club.
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