David Seifert was born on 31 December 1896 in Wolanka, Poland. He died in France in 1980.

He entered a school of Art in Lwov, then in Weimar, in 1912 where he met Joachim Weingart and Paul Klee.

The industrialist and patron Carol Katz was seduced by his talent and decided to support him during his years of training.

In 1924, David moved to Paris; He was chosen with 33 other artists - including Marie Vassilieff, Pierre Dubreuil - to decorate a pilaster (for others a pillar) of the famous brasserie La Coupole in Paris. The inauguration took place on 20 December 1927 and was surrounded by friends Leon Weissberg, Othon Friez, and Moise Kisling.

From 1930 to 1938, Seifert lived in Sanary and painted cinema posters in Toulon

In 1939 he returned to Paris and stayed on the 4th floor of 73 rue Notre Dame des champs, on the same landing as Othon Friesz, of which he became a friend.

On July 14, 1942, the painter left to work in the region of Beauvais; his son was on vacation in Charente Maritime, and Anna his wife, alone in Paris, is warned of the next day's roundup by Nazi's by the wife of Othon Friesz who had dined at the prefecture.

Ann left in the night with a friend and was saved.

The son of Anna and David followed and had schooling with Philippe Tesson at the Collège of Stanislas in Paris, while the parents hid in a small house in Vauderlhan (near Goussainville, towards Le Bourget).

After the war, David Seifert regularly participated in Paris in the Salon L'Automne and the Salon des Independants.

Although Anna became an art broker and received art collectors (and even Arno Brecker!) she did not promote the work of her husband.

His collectors are all over the world - command of the French state - and also in the Usa, Canada, England, and South Africa.

In 1960, David Seifert settled in a pavilion at the 25 road of the guards in Meudon and worked there until his death on January 18, 1980.

Nieszawer & Princ
"Jewish Artists of the School of Paris 1905-1939"
Editors Somogy 2015

Source:
"David Seifert," expertise@ecoledeparis.org, web, google translate

Submitted by Chad Reid, Art Specialist, Pacific Galleries