Moïse Kisling
Among the foremost Montparnasse painters between the wars.
A private museum in a villa in the spa town of Konstancin-Jeziorna south of Warsaw, devoted to artists of the School of Paris of Polish and Polish-Jewish origin. The School of Paris is not a school in the sense of a style but a label for a generation of foreign artists who gathered in Paris between the wars — many of them Jews from eastern Europe who came fleeing discrimination and seeking freedom to work. The best known in this collection are Moïse Kisling, Louis Marcoussis, Mané-Katz and Alicja Halicka. In Montparnasse they produced work that forms an important part of European modernism, and then the war scattered them and many were killed. The collection was built by a private collector from the 1990s, and is among the most important holdings of this art in Poland — which had been absent from the country because its makers left and their work stayed in the West. Hours are limited and booking is advised.
Among the foremost Montparnasse painters between the wars.
Its makers left and their work stayed in the West.
A label for a generation of foreigners in Paris, not one manner.
Konstancin-Jeziorna, south of Warsaw
A label applied to the foreign artists who worked in Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century, especially in Montmartre and then Montparnasse. No style united them but a place and a moment: Modigliani the Italian, Chagall the Belarusian, Soutine the Lithuanian, Foujita the Japanese, Kisling the Pole. Paris was then the only place where an artist with no money and no convenient nationality could work and exhibit. The Second World War ended that scene.
A spa town south of Warsaw that grew in the late nineteenth century when the wealthy discovered its pine air and built wooden villas for the summer. It became the residence of Warsaw's elite, and still keeps dozens of historic villas among the trees. It also has a graduation tower — a timber structure over which brine trickles to produce humid air thought good for the lungs. Walking the town makes a pleasant half day.
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