Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka ( born May 16, 1898 in St. Petersburg as Tamara Gorska, according to other sources * in Warsaw as Maria Górska, † March 16, 1980 in Cuernavaca, Mexico) was a Polish painter of Art Deco.

Life

Characteristic of Lempicka's later artistic development was the contact with the paintings of the Renaissance on a trip to Italy in 1911. After her parents divorced in 1912, her grandmother sent her to a school in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1916 she married Tadeusz Lempicki the lawyer ( 1888-1951 ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where she lived from then on. After the October Revolution of 1917, her husband was arrested. Tamara fled to Copenhagen. Her husband followed her after his release. Together they went to Paris in 1918. Here in 1920 was born their daughter Kizette. Since it did not succeed her husband to find a suitable job, Lempicka decided to earn a living by painting. She put her away in St. Petersburg begun to study art and became a pupil of Maurice Denis and André Lhote.

As a 1925 international with the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes held the first and eponymous for the concept of style Art Deco exhibition, Tamara de Lempicka was represented with some pictures and first captured the interest of a wide audience. Within a short time it became one of the most sought-after artists of her time. Your images combine cool, reminiscent of Renaissance images objectivity with sensuous sultry. They staged himself to the smallest as a diva, had a series of affairs, referring in Paris (7 rue Méchain ) a luxurious apartment that served as her salon, apartment and studio. This was in service mainly in high society circles. In 1928 she got a divorce from her husband in 1934, she married on a sea voyage to the Hungarian Baron Raoul Kuffner de widowed industrialist Diószegh (Vienna 1886-1961 ). The Baron came from an ennobled Jewish family, was born in Vienna and had considerable wealth in Hungary.

Mid-1930s suffered from depression Lempicka, her work dried up. 1939 remained the family Lempicka Kuffner after a holiday in the U.S., according to the official version. In fact, the move was planned long beforehand, her husband Baron Raoul Kuffner was secretly his estate in Hungary vacate and brought antiques and valuables to America. His far-sighted woman had convinced him long before breaking out of the war, his most important Hungarian possessions to sell and accommodate the money in Switzerland. Tamara de Lempicka lived first in Los Angeles, later moved to New York. Until 1974, she lived in Houston, close to her daughter Kizette Foxhall. Then she moved to Mexico.

From the 1950s, when abstract painting asserted itself finally, it was quiet around the Art Deco artist. She tried even in abstract painting, but could not prevail in the same way as in the heyday of Art Deco in the 1920s and 1930s. Only towards the end of the 1960s began a renewed interest in their works. Tamara de Lempicka died in 1980 in Mexico. Her ashes were scattered over the Popocatépetl.

The summary of her biography and genealogy information about Tamara de Lempicka and her first husband in the literature are contradictory. Her birth name is sometimes Gurwic - Gurska, they may have been born in 1895 also in Warsaw, the marriage to Baron Kuffner to have taken place on February 3, 1934 in Zurich. From her first husband, Tadeusz Lempicki Julian, who was said to be a lawyer and 1947-1950 Polish Consul General in Toulouse supposedly, they lived separately. He is said to have died in 1951 in Warsaw under unexplained circumstances.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait Marquis Sommi, 1925
  • Portrait of Prince Eristoff, 1925
  • Portrait of the Duchess de la Salle, 1925
  • The orange scarf, 1927
  • Kizette in Pink, 1927
  • The Beautiful Rafaela, 1927
  • Spring, 1928
  • Unfinished Portrait of a Man ( Tadeusz de Lempicki ), 1928
  • Tamara in the Green Bugatti, 1929
  • Young girl with gloves, 1929, Musée National d' Art Moderne, Paris
  • St. Moritz 1929
  • Portrait of Dr Boucard, 1929
  • The Green Turban, 1930
  • Dormeuse, 1934
  • Mother Superior, 1939
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