Marc Sterling

Marc Sterling is a painter, born with, Ukraine in 1895 and deceased in Paris, France in 1976.

Biography

Resulting from an Jewish family of Ukraine, Marc Sterling studied painting with Odessa, then in, Moscow with the beginning of the year 1920. In 1921-1922 it is in Berlin, where it meets his future wife and where its first exposure takes place. Then, in 1926, it is established in Paris and joined the international circle of the artists whom one will call École of Paris. He attends the coffees and the workshops of Montparnasse, like " Ruche", it finds there Jacques Chapiro, Ossip Lubitch, Lazare Volovick,… During the Second world war, Sterling and its family (it has two girls) takes refuge in province. After the war, it returns to Paris. It remarie in 1953 with a young pupil of Ossip Zadkine. He lives between Paris and Switzerland, travels much, exposes regularly in galleries and living rooms. It continues to work until its death, in 1976.

Its work

The work of Sterling is very varied, it was renewed unceasingly, without solidifying in only one manner, keeping an enormous vitality. It touched with various techniques: oil, gouache, drawing, washing, engraving. One can distinguish several periods in his work: Raise Tatline with, Sterling was constructivist at his beginnings. Then, in Paris, in contact with artists like Picasso, Directs, Juan Gris, Metzinger, Sterling approaches the synthetic Cubisme. During the years 1930, Sterling evolves to a more flexible and lyric style - bouquets of flower, cages with birds, portraits of his/her daughters - treaties in a kind of oneiric realism. Post-war periods, of the dark and nightmarish visions carry the seal of the tragedy. From the beginning of the year 1950, more varied colors and subjects impressed of calm and delicacy appear - the naked ones, portraits. Its last period, the years 1960-1970, is characterized by more and more freedom in the colors, like in the subjects: fabulous animals, fantastic beings, imaginary landscapes are bathed in a very personal poetic atmosphere.

Museums and collections

  • National museum of Modern art - Center Pompidou,
  • Municipal Fund of Contemporary art of the Town of Paris
  • Museum of Tel-Aviv
  • National library of France
  • Many private collections: France, the United States, Netherlands, Sweden, Israel etc

Bibliography and bonds

Lejkind, O., Mahrov, K., Severjuhin, D., Hudozniki russkogo zarubezja: 1917-1939: Biograficeskij slovar . Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatel' stvo Notabene, 1999. Nieszawer, NR., Boyé, Mr., Fogel, P., Jewish Painters in Paris: 1905-1939: School of Paris . Paris: Denoël, 2000.
  • http://www.artfira.com/site/en/artist/51fec7e9e27708d8701c6b7b03ce1b9c

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