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1899 Stockholm - 1983 Paris. Known for: Modernist still lifes, post-cubist abstraction, and contributions to Swedish–French artistic exchange..
Greta Knutson-Tzara (1899–1983) was a Swedish modernist artist, writer, and critic born in Stockholm who settled permanently in Paris in the early 1920s. She studied at Carl Wilhelmson’s painting... Read full biography
Greta Knutson-Tzara (1899–1983) was a Swedish modernist artist, writer, and critic born in Stockholm who settled permanently in Paris in the early 1920s. She studied at Carl Wilhelmson’s painting school and later at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan before moving to Paris, where she became a student of... Read full biography
Greta Knutson-Tzara (1899–1983) was a Swedish modernist artist, writer, and critic born in Stockholm who settled permanently in Paris in the early 1920s. She studied at Carl Wilhelmson’s painting school and later at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan before moving to Paris, where she became a student of André Lhote and entered the city’s modernist and surrealist circles. Knutson-Tzara met the Romanian Dada poet Tristan Tzara in 1924 and married him the following year. Their Montmartre home, designed... Read full biography
Greta Knutson-Tzara (1899–1983) was a Swedish modernist artist, writer, and critic born in Stockholm who settled permanently in Paris in the early 1920s. She studied at Carl Wilhelmson’s painting school and later at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan before moving to Paris, where she became a student of André Lhote and entered the city’s modernist and surrealist circles. Knutson-Tzara met the Romanian Dada poet Tristan Tzara in 1924 and married him the following year. Their Montmartre home, designed by architect Adolf Loos and financed through her inheritance, became a gathering place for Parisian surrealists. She exhibited in both France and Sweden during the 1920s and 1930s, including with the Swedish group Optimisterna and at the Salon des... Read full biography
Greta Knutson-Tzara (1899–1983) was a Swedish modernist artist, writer, and critic born in Stockholm who settled permanently in Paris in the early 1920s. She studied at Carl Wilhelmson’s painting school and later at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan before moving to Paris, where she became a student of André Lhote and entered the city’s modernist and surrealist circles. Knutson-Tzara met the Romanian Dada poet Tristan Tzara in 1924 and married him the following year. Their Montmartre home, designed by architect Adolf Loos and financed through her inheritance, became a gathering place for Parisian surrealists. She exhibited in both France and Sweden during the 1920s and 1930s, including with the Swedish group Optimisterna and at the Salon des Surindépendants. During the late 1930s Knutson-Tzara adopted a modernist, post-cubist style and pursued interests in phenomenology. She... Read full biography
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Greta Knutson-Tzara (1899–1983) was a Swedish modernist artist, writer, and critic born in Stockholm who settled permanently in Paris in the early 1920s. She studied at Carl Wilhelmson’s painting school and later at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan before moving to Paris, where she became a student of André Lhote and entered the city’s modernist and surrealist circles.
Knutson-Tzara met the Romanian Dada poet Tristan Tzara in 1924 and married him the following year. Their Montmartre home, designed by architect Adolf Loos and financed through her inheritance, became a gathering place for Parisian surrealists. She exhibited in both France and Sweden during the 1920s and 1930s, including with the Swedish group Optimisterna and at the Salo...But wait, there's more...
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