École de Paris
The École de Paris or the School of Paris is one of the largest sections in our collection. While Paris became home to artists from all over the world, our collection mainly focuses on artists from Eastern Europe.
Presented here is a unique cohort of artists, united largely by their motivation to pursue their creative careers and gain recognition and success in Paris. Spanning across both the first and second half of the 20th century and thus representing both the original École de Paris and the Jeune École de Paris - also referred to as the Nouvelle École de Paris - there is no homogeneity in their styles or theories. Some are figurative (Alexandre Altmann, Joseph Constant, Adolphe Feder and Mania Mavro), some are abstract (Jun Dobashi, Mikhail Andreenko-Nechytailo, André Lanskoy, Youla Chapoval and Serge Charchoune), some fall somewhere in between (Anna Staritsky, Claire Fargue and Alexandre Fasini) yet many in fact, are both (Paul Mansouroff, Pinchus Kremegne, Alexandre Orloff and Léon Zack). United by Paris, by Montparnasse, by La Ruche, by the salons and galleries where they showed and by the cafés where they met, talked and drank, these artists were instrumental in creating the vibrant international community of artists that granted Paris the status of the Capital of the Arts.