ALEX SMADJA (Mostaganem 1897 - 1977 Saint-Léger-en-Bray) In the Café

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  ALEX SMADJA*
  (Mostaganem 1897 - 1977 Saint-Léger-en-Bray)
  In the Café
  oil/canvas, 146 x 114,5 cm
  signed A. Smadja, verso signed and inscribed Alex Smadja, 18 Bd.- Strasbourg Paris X PEINTURE
  Provenance: Millon et Associés SAS Paris 2017, European private collection
  
  ESTIMATE °€ 8.000 - 16.000
  
  German painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. Main representative of German Expressionism. Trained as a decorative painter in Zwickau in Germany, from 1902 master student of Otto Gussmann at the Dresden Art Academy. From 1906 important member of the artists' association die Brücke, as were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Mueller, Cuno Amiet, Emil Nolde and Kees van Dongen. In 1907, in Paris, he came into contact with Henri Matisse and Fauvism. Close contact with Kees van Dongen and André Derain. From 1908 in Berlin, acquaintance with his later wife Lotte Kaprolat. She was Georg Kolbe's model and also his most frequent model from 1908 to 1920. Exposure to the works of Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch. In 1908 member of the Berlin Secession and in 1910 member of the New Secession, as well as Moritz Melzer, Georg Tappert, Arthur Segal. Acquaintance with Franz Marc and August Macke, thereby good contacts with the Blue Rider in Munich. From 1909 regularly on the Kuhrische Nehrung on the Baltic Sea in the fishing village of Nidden, member of the Nidden Artists' Association, including Ernst Bischoff-Culm and Ernst Mollenhauer. 1913/1914 trip to the South Seas. 1918 Co-founder of the Novembergruppe together with Rudolf Belling and Erich Mendelsohn and of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst. 1937 his works classified as degenerate art by the Nazis. 1944 a large part of his works burned due to the effects of war. 1945 Professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Regular stays at the Lebasee and Kosersee in Pomerania. Created mainly exotic landscapes, dance motifs and portraits of women or female heads in intense, strong and bright colors.
  
  
  
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