Cha茂m Soutine: Against the Current
The expressive painting of Cha茂m Soutine (1893鈥�1943) is characterised by colour explosions, form distortions and vigorous brushstrokes. He created powerful portraits of cooks and bellboys, swaying landscapes and dizzying perspectives or slaughtered animals echoing pain and death throes.
The intense and disturbing visual language reflects the torn awareness of life of an entire era. Soutine lived in severe poverty in his homeland, in present-day Belarus, and during his first decade as a Jewish emigrant in Paris. The artist Amedeo Modigliani was one of the very few people he confided in, and he remained an outsider even after his artistic breakthrough. His motifs are deeply moving because they reflect the existential, vulnerable dimension of existence.
Curator: Anne-Christine Strobel
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The expressive painting of Cha茂m Soutine (1893鈥�1943) is characterised by colour explosions, form distortions and vigorous brushstrokes. He created powerful portraits of cooks and bellboys, swaying landscapes and dizzying perspectives or slaughtered animals echoing pain and death throes.
The intense and disturbing visual language reflects the torn awareness of life of an entire era. Soutine lived in severe poverty in his homeland, in present-day Belarus, and during his first decade as a Jewish emigrant in Paris. The artist Amedeo Modigliani was one of the very few people he confided in, and he remained an outsider even after his artistic breakthrough. His motifs are deeply moving because they reflect the existential, vulnerable dimension of existence.
Curator: Anne-Christine Strobel
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Between 16 August and 1 December 2024 the Kunstmuseum Bern is devoting the major retrospective Cha茂m Soutine: Against the Current to the painter Cha茂m Soutine (1893鈥�1943).
From August 16 to December 1, 2024, the Kunstmuseum Bern presents a major retrospective on Cha茂m Soutine, a significant figure in classical modernism.
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