Rudolf Levy: Young Man Portrait / German Jewish Berlin Secession Holocaust
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Rudolf Levy1875, Stettin, Germany - January 1944, Italy or AuschwitzYoung Man PortraitOriginal Hand-Signed Pencil on Paper Artist Name: Rudolf Levy
Title: Young man portrait
Signature Description: Hand-signed with initials lower right
Technique: Pencil on paper
Image Size: 21 x 12 cm / 8.27" x 4.72" inch
Frame: The painting is unframed
Condition: Good condition, a few aging spots at ...the top (well away from the image) consistent wit the age of the drawing, adhesive tape stains at the top corners due to previous framing.
Artist's Biography: Rudolf Levy (15 July 1875, Stettin, Germany - January 1944, Italy or Auschwitz) was a German Expressionist painter of Jewish ancestry.BiographyRudolf Levy grew up in an Orthodox family. While he was still a boy, they moved to Danzig, where he grew up. After completing his primary education, he was apprenticed to a carpenter. His parents were strongly opposed to his desires to become an artist but, in 1895, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe.In 1897, he and his friend, Hans Purrmann, went to Munich to open a studio.
While there, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with Nikolaus Gysis (1842-1904), one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters.
Then, in 1899, he took lessons at the private art school operated by Heinrich Knirr and studied plein air painting with Heinrich von Zügel.
He also became a member of a cultural association known as "Sturmfackel" (a type of poppy), that met at the Café Stefanie.In the fall of 1903, he went to Paris and established a circle of German-speaking artists who met at Le Dôme Café.
Two years later, he participated in the third exhibition of the Salon d'Automne at the Grand Palais.
In 1907, he worked at the newly founded teaching studios of Henri Matisse.
Between 1910 and 1913, he made regular trips to the south of France and Tunisia. During the First World War, he volunteered and fought as a German soldier in Artois and Flanders. He was awarded the Iron Cross in 1915.
After the war, he returned to Germany and married Eugenie Schindler (1894-1953), a photographer and actress who went by the name Genia Morelli. They eventually settled in Berlin and, in 1922, he had his first solo exhibition, arranged by Alfred Flechtheim.
From 1924 to 1926, he was back in Paris, serving as Flechtheim's agent.
In 1928, he became a member of the Berlin Secession and served on its board of directors.Five years later, due to the increasing persecution of Jews in Germany, he went to Rapallo, Italy, where he stayed with his friend and student, Bob Gesinus-Visser (1898-1978).
In 1935, he went to Mallorca. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he went to New York to stay with his friend, the actor Erik Charell. He did not want to stay there, however, and went back to Europe; first to Dubrovnik, then Ischia, where he lived at the artists' colony. He supported himself with occasional painting sales and financial aid from his family, including his now ex-wife, Genia.In 1937, his works were placed on the list of Degenerate Art.
After World War II began, his residence permit was cancelled, and he had to leave Ischia. Charell worked hard to obtain a visa for him to return to the United States or seek refuge in South America, but to no avail.
In 1940, he was able to find a place to stay with friends in Florence. After the German Army occupied Italy in 1943, he had to go underground. In December of that year, he was lured into a trap by SS agents pretending they were art buyers. He was arrested by the Gestapo, briefly imprisoned at Le Murate, then placed on a transport to Auschwitz. It is generally believed that he died while in transit but may have survived until reaching there.Alfred Flechtheim and Rudolf Levy
Alfred Flechtheim (1878, Münster – 1937, London) was a German art dealer, art collector, journalist and publisher of Jewish descent.
Rudolf Levy came from a Jewish Orthodox family from Silesia.
In 1903 he went to Paris and, together with Hans Purrmann and Walter Bondy, co-founded the circle of German-speaking artists at the Café du Dôme. He attended the Académie Matisse in Paris from 1908–12. He took part in the first exhibition of ‘Das junge Rheinland’ group in 1919. He had a solo exhibition with 25 works at the Galerie Flechtheim in June 1922.
Levy spent 1924–26 once again in Paris where he became an important representative of Flechtheim’s, establishing contact to artists and exhibition organisers. At the same time, Levy exhibited at the Berlin Secession in 1921 and was a member of its board and jury from 1928 onwards. Throughout his life Levy took a close interest in the work of Matisse, Impressionism and Cézanne. As a result, he developed his very own style somewhere between Expressionism and Realism.Due to his Jewish heritage Levy was forced to emigrate on 1 April 1933.
In 1940 he settled in Florence. When Germany occupied Florence in autumn 1943, he was warned by friends and managed to go into hiding. However, the SS set a trap and Levy was arrrested in December 1943. It is presumed that he died while being taken to Auschwitz in January 1944.Alfred Flechtheim included works by Levy in his inaugural exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1913. Shortly afterwards they signed a contract and Flechtheim became Levy’s sole dealer. He later paid him a fixed amount every month. The good relationship between Rudolf Levy and Alfred Flechtheim lasted a lifetime.
Flechtheim also privately owned at least four works by Levy. His work was mentioned and described several times in ‘Der Querschnitt’ and a volume of poems by Levy entitled 'Die Lieder des alten Morelli' was published by the Galerie Flechtheim in 1922.
Solo exhibitions at the Galerie Flechtheim
Juni 1922
Rudolf Levy
Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main (Königsallee, Gärtnerweg)1925
Rudolf Levy
Berlin, Düsseldorf (Lützowufer, Königsallee)1926
Rudolf Levy
Berlin, Lützowufer 13Group exhibitions at the Galerie Flechtheim
Dezember 1913
Beiträge zur Kunst des XIX. Jahrhunderts und unserer Zeit. Zusammengestellt von Dr.Paul Mahlberg. Herausgegeben anläßlich ihrer Eröffnung von der Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, GmbH
Düsseldorf, Alleestraße 7
Mai–Oktober 1914
Deutsche Werkbundausstellung. Leihgaben der Galerie Alfred Flechtheim
Köln / Düsseldorf, Alleestraße 7Juni–Juli 1914
Der «Dôme»
Düsseldorf, Alleestraße 7Juni 1917
Galerie Alfred Flechtheim. Moderne Gemälde. Auktion durch Paul Cassirer und Hugo Helbing in den Versteigerungsräumen
Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 208-209Juli–August 1919
Auf dem Wege zur Kunst unserer Zeit. Vorkriegsbilder und Bildwerke
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34Juli–September 1920
Sommer 1920. Ostasiatische Gemälde. Künstler vom Niederrhein, aus Westfalen und Frankreich
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34Oktober 1921
Eröffnungsausstellung: Deutsche und französische Kunst aus des XX. Jahrhunderts Beginn
Berlin, Lützowufer 13November–Dezember 1924
O.T.
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34Dezember 1924
Stilleben
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34Sommer 1925
Sommer 1925
Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, (Lützowufer, Königsallee, Oberlindau 1)Juni–August 1927
Das Problem der Generation. Die um 1880 geborenen Meister von heute Erster Teil: Die Deutschen
Berlin, Lützowufer 13Sommer 1929
Sommer 1929: Rudolf Grossmann und andere
Berlin, Düsseldorf, (Lützowufer, Königsallee)September–Oktober 1928
Lebende ausländische Kunst. Aus rheinischem Privatbesitz
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34November–Dezember 1930
Seit Liebermann in Deutschland. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34Dezember 1932 – Januar 1933
Lebendige deutsche Kunst. Ausstellungsfolge in drei Abteilungen. Veranstaltet von Paul Cassirer und Alfred Flechtheim. Erste Ausstellung beim Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer
Berlin, Viktoriastraße 35
Additional Information:A mediator of modernity between France and GermanyRudolf Levy sets an important accent with his work in 20th century German painting.Levy followed French traditions. His painting flourished in the fertile climate of "expression", as exemplified by the teacher Henri Matisse. His reception of Cézanne's art is typical of a whole generation of artists.
Rudolf Levy belongs with Oskar Moll and Hans Purrmann to the three outstanding German students of Henri Matisse.
Levy's pictures are expressive, yes, expressionist. But precisely because of their French character, they stand in marked contrast to simultaneous works of the expressionists of "Brücke" or "Blauer Reiter" in Germany.
In 1903 Levy went to Paris and became the central figure in the circle of artists of the Café du Dôme. After the First World War, he brought his Mediterranean peinture to the metropolis of Berlin and played a recognized role in the Berlin Secession as a board and jury member.By the year 1933 Levy began the bitter period of emigration. His fate in exile, his tragic end in Italy document a piece of contemporary history full of suffering and horror.
And yet the artist leaves behind a late work, which has a high quality in colorism and expressivity.
The painting of Rudolf Levy has its genesis and its fixed art historical place in the context of a European Expressionism.
Ein Mittler der Moderne zwischen Frankreich und DeutschlandRudolf Levy setzt mit seinem Werk in der deutschen Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts einen wichtigen Akzent.
Levy knüpfte an französische Traditionen an. Seine Malerei gedieh im fruchtbaren Klima der „expression, wie sie der Lehrer Henri Matisse beispielhaft vermittelte. Seine Rezeption der Kunst Cézannes ist typisch für eine ganze Generation von Künstlern.
Rudolf Levy gehört mit Oskar Moll und Hans Purrmann zu den drei herausragenden deutschen Schülern von Henri Matisse.
Levys Bilder sind expressiv, ja expressionistisch. Doch gerade aufgrund ihrer französischen Prägung stehen sie in deutlichem Kontrast zu gleichzeitigen Werken der Expressionisten von „Brücke“ oder „Blauer Reiter“ in Deutschland.
1903 ging Levy nach Paris und wurde zur zentralen Gestalt im Künstlerkreis des Café du Dôme. Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg brachte er seine mediterrane Peinture in die Metropole Berlin und spielte in der Berliner Secession eine anerkannte Rolle als Vorstands- und Jurymitglied.
Mit dem Jahr 1933 begann für Levy die bittere Zeit der Emigration. Sein Schicksal im Exil, sein tragisches Ende in Italien dokumentieren ein Stück Zeitgeschichte voller Leid und Schrecken.
Und dennoch hinterlässt der Künstler ein Spätwerk, das in Kolorismus und Expressivität eine hohe Qualität besitzt.
Die Malerei Rudolf Levys hat im Kontext eines europäischen Expressionismus ihre Genese und ihren festen kunsthistorischen Platz.Payment Methods: PayPal, Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard), Bank Cheque. If you wish to send a personal cheque, please note that the item will not be shipped until the cheque clears.
Shipping&Handling: All items are sent through registered mail or by EMS - Fast delivery service, both operated by the Israel Post (up to 4-5 business days), depends on the weight and measures of the purchased item. You may add insurance for the item with an additional fee. Please e-mail us for other shipping methods.
In case that the frame includes a glass, the item will be shipped without the glass in order to prevent any damage to the artwork caused by broken glass: be aware that such kind of a damage is not covered by the insurance!
Terms of Auction: All sales are final, please only bid if you intend to pay. Refunds will be accepted only if the item is not as described in the auction. ISRAELI BUYERS MUST ADD 17% V.A.T. TO THE FINAL PRICE.
Artshik provides full assurance that all items sold are exactly as described! We guarantee all items we sell are 100% authentic!
00070
Title: Young man portrait
Signature Description: Hand-signed with initials lower right
Technique: Pencil on paper
Image Size: 21 x 12 cm / 8.27" x 4.72" inch
Frame: The painting is unframed
Condition: Good condition, a few aging spots at ...the top (well away from the image) consistent wit the age of the drawing, adhesive tape stains at the top corners due to previous framing.
Artist's Biography: Rudolf Levy (15 July 1875, Stettin, Germany - January 1944, Italy or Auschwitz) was a German Expressionist painter of Jewish ancestry.BiographyRudolf Levy grew up in an Orthodox family. While he was still a boy, they moved to Danzig, where he grew up. After completing his primary education, he was apprenticed to a carpenter. His parents were strongly opposed to his desires to become an artist but, in 1895, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe.In 1897, he and his friend, Hans Purrmann, went to Munich to open a studio.
While there, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with Nikolaus Gysis (1842-1904), one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters.
Then, in 1899, he took lessons at the private art school operated by Heinrich Knirr and studied plein air painting with Heinrich von Zügel.
He also became a member of a cultural association known as "Sturmfackel" (a type of poppy), that met at the Café Stefanie.In the fall of 1903, he went to Paris and established a circle of German-speaking artists who met at Le Dôme Café.
Two years later, he participated in the third exhibition of the Salon d'Automne at the Grand Palais.
In 1907, he worked at the newly founded teaching studios of Henri Matisse.
Between 1910 and 1913, he made regular trips to the south of France and Tunisia. During the First World War, he volunteered and fought as a German soldier in Artois and Flanders. He was awarded the Iron Cross in 1915.
After the war, he returned to Germany and married Eugenie Schindler (1894-1953), a photographer and actress who went by the name Genia Morelli. They eventually settled in Berlin and, in 1922, he had his first solo exhibition, arranged by Alfred Flechtheim.
From 1924 to 1926, he was back in Paris, serving as Flechtheim's agent.
In 1928, he became a member of the Berlin Secession and served on its board of directors.Five years later, due to the increasing persecution of Jews in Germany, he went to Rapallo, Italy, where he stayed with his friend and student, Bob Gesinus-Visser (1898-1978).
In 1935, he went to Mallorca. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he went to New York to stay with his friend, the actor Erik Charell. He did not want to stay there, however, and went back to Europe; first to Dubrovnik, then Ischia, where he lived at the artists' colony. He supported himself with occasional painting sales and financial aid from his family, including his now ex-wife, Genia.In 1937, his works were placed on the list of Degenerate Art.
After World War II began, his residence permit was cancelled, and he had to leave Ischia. Charell worked hard to obtain a visa for him to return to the United States or seek refuge in South America, but to no avail.
In 1940, he was able to find a place to stay with friends in Florence. After the German Army occupied Italy in 1943, he had to go underground. In December of that year, he was lured into a trap by SS agents pretending they were art buyers. He was arrested by the Gestapo, briefly imprisoned at Le Murate, then placed on a transport to Auschwitz. It is generally believed that he died while in transit but may have survived until reaching there.Alfred Flechtheim and Rudolf Levy
Alfred Flechtheim (1878, Münster – 1937, London) was a German art dealer, art collector, journalist and publisher of Jewish descent.
Rudolf Levy came from a Jewish Orthodox family from Silesia.
In 1903 he went to Paris and, together with Hans Purrmann and Walter Bondy, co-founded the circle of German-speaking artists at the Café du Dôme. He attended the Académie Matisse in Paris from 1908–12. He took part in the first exhibition of ‘Das junge Rheinland’ group in 1919. He had a solo exhibition with 25 works at the Galerie Flechtheim in June 1922.
Levy spent 1924–26 once again in Paris where he became an important representative of Flechtheim’s, establishing contact to artists and exhibition organisers. At the same time, Levy exhibited at the Berlin Secession in 1921 and was a member of its board and jury from 1928 onwards. Throughout his life Levy took a close interest in the work of Matisse, Impressionism and Cézanne. As a result, he developed his very own style somewhere between Expressionism and Realism.Due to his Jewish heritage Levy was forced to emigrate on 1 April 1933.
In 1940 he settled in Florence. When Germany occupied Florence in autumn 1943, he was warned by friends and managed to go into hiding. However, the SS set a trap and Levy was arrrested in December 1943. It is presumed that he died while being taken to Auschwitz in January 1944.Alfred Flechtheim included works by Levy in his inaugural exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1913. Shortly afterwards they signed a contract and Flechtheim became Levy’s sole dealer. He later paid him a fixed amount every month. The good relationship between Rudolf Levy and Alfred Flechtheim lasted a lifetime.
Flechtheim also privately owned at least four works by Levy. His work was mentioned and described several times in ‘Der Querschnitt’ and a volume of poems by Levy entitled 'Die Lieder des alten Morelli' was published by the Galerie Flechtheim in 1922.
Solo exhibitions at the Galerie Flechtheim
Juni 1922
Rudolf Levy
Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main (Königsallee, Gärtnerweg)1925
Rudolf Levy
Berlin, Düsseldorf (Lützowufer, Königsallee)1926
Rudolf Levy
Berlin, Lützowufer 13Group exhibitions at the Galerie Flechtheim
Dezember 1913
Beiträge zur Kunst des XIX. Jahrhunderts und unserer Zeit. Zusammengestellt von Dr.Paul Mahlberg. Herausgegeben anläßlich ihrer Eröffnung von der Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, GmbH
Düsseldorf, Alleestraße 7
Mai–Oktober 1914
Deutsche Werkbundausstellung. Leihgaben der Galerie Alfred Flechtheim
Köln / Düsseldorf, Alleestraße 7Juni–Juli 1914
Der «Dôme»
Düsseldorf, Alleestraße 7Juni 1917
Galerie Alfred Flechtheim. Moderne Gemälde. Auktion durch Paul Cassirer und Hugo Helbing in den Versteigerungsräumen
Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 208-209Juli–August 1919
Auf dem Wege zur Kunst unserer Zeit. Vorkriegsbilder und Bildwerke
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34Juli–September 1920
Sommer 1920. Ostasiatische Gemälde. Künstler vom Niederrhein, aus Westfalen und Frankreich
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34Oktober 1921
Eröffnungsausstellung: Deutsche und französische Kunst aus des XX. Jahrhunderts Beginn
Berlin, Lützowufer 13November–Dezember 1924
O.T.
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34Dezember 1924
Stilleben
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34Sommer 1925
Sommer 1925
Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, (Lützowufer, Königsallee, Oberlindau 1)Juni–August 1927
Das Problem der Generation. Die um 1880 geborenen Meister von heute Erster Teil: Die Deutschen
Berlin, Lützowufer 13Sommer 1929
Sommer 1929: Rudolf Grossmann und andere
Berlin, Düsseldorf, (Lützowufer, Königsallee)September–Oktober 1928
Lebende ausländische Kunst. Aus rheinischem Privatbesitz
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34November–Dezember 1930
Seit Liebermann in Deutschland. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik
Düsseldorf, Königsallee 34Dezember 1932 – Januar 1933
Lebendige deutsche Kunst. Ausstellungsfolge in drei Abteilungen. Veranstaltet von Paul Cassirer und Alfred Flechtheim. Erste Ausstellung beim Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer
Berlin, Viktoriastraße 35
Additional Information:A mediator of modernity between France and GermanyRudolf Levy sets an important accent with his work in 20th century German painting.Levy followed French traditions. His painting flourished in the fertile climate of "expression", as exemplified by the teacher Henri Matisse. His reception of Cézanne's art is typical of a whole generation of artists.
Rudolf Levy belongs with Oskar Moll and Hans Purrmann to the three outstanding German students of Henri Matisse.
Levy's pictures are expressive, yes, expressionist. But precisely because of their French character, they stand in marked contrast to simultaneous works of the expressionists of "Brücke" or "Blauer Reiter" in Germany.
In 1903 Levy went to Paris and became the central figure in the circle of artists of the Café du Dôme. After the First World War, he brought his Mediterranean peinture to the metropolis of Berlin and played a recognized role in the Berlin Secession as a board and jury member.By the year 1933 Levy began the bitter period of emigration. His fate in exile, his tragic end in Italy document a piece of contemporary history full of suffering and horror.
And yet the artist leaves behind a late work, which has a high quality in colorism and expressivity.
The painting of Rudolf Levy has its genesis and its fixed art historical place in the context of a European Expressionism.
Ein Mittler der Moderne zwischen Frankreich und DeutschlandRudolf Levy setzt mit seinem Werk in der deutschen Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts einen wichtigen Akzent.
Levy knüpfte an französische Traditionen an. Seine Malerei gedieh im fruchtbaren Klima der „expression, wie sie der Lehrer Henri Matisse beispielhaft vermittelte. Seine Rezeption der Kunst Cézannes ist typisch für eine ganze Generation von Künstlern.
Rudolf Levy gehört mit Oskar Moll und Hans Purrmann zu den drei herausragenden deutschen Schülern von Henri Matisse.
Levys Bilder sind expressiv, ja expressionistisch. Doch gerade aufgrund ihrer französischen Prägung stehen sie in deutlichem Kontrast zu gleichzeitigen Werken der Expressionisten von „Brücke“ oder „Blauer Reiter“ in Deutschland.
1903 ging Levy nach Paris und wurde zur zentralen Gestalt im Künstlerkreis des Café du Dôme. Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg brachte er seine mediterrane Peinture in die Metropole Berlin und spielte in der Berliner Secession eine anerkannte Rolle als Vorstands- und Jurymitglied.
Mit dem Jahr 1933 begann für Levy die bittere Zeit der Emigration. Sein Schicksal im Exil, sein tragisches Ende in Italien dokumentieren ein Stück Zeitgeschichte voller Leid und Schrecken.
Und dennoch hinterlässt der Künstler ein Spätwerk, das in Kolorismus und Expressivität eine hohe Qualität besitzt.
Die Malerei Rudolf Levys hat im Kontext eines europäischen Expressionismus ihre Genese und ihren festen kunsthistorischen Platz.Payment Methods: PayPal, Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard), Bank Cheque. If you wish to send a personal cheque, please note that the item will not be shipped until the cheque clears.
Shipping&Handling: All items are sent through registered mail or by EMS - Fast delivery service, both operated by the Israel Post (up to 4-5 business days), depends on the weight and measures of the purchased item. You may add insurance for the item with an additional fee. Please e-mail us for other shipping methods.
In case that the frame includes a glass, the item will be shipped without the glass in order to prevent any damage to the artwork caused by broken glass: be aware that such kind of a damage is not covered by the insurance!
Terms of Auction: All sales are final, please only bid if you intend to pay. Refunds will be accepted only if the item is not as described in the auction. ISRAELI BUYERS MUST ADD 17% V.A.T. TO THE FINAL PRICE.
Artshik provides full assurance that all items sold are exactly as described! We guarantee all items we sell are 100% authentic!
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