Ossip Lubitch - Artist Info

About Ossip Lubitch

Name variants

Ossip Lubich, Osip Lyubich
  • Biography

    Ossipp Lubitch was born in 1896 into a family of blacksmiths in Gondo (now Belarus). He started studying at the Fine Art Academy in Odessa in 1915.

    Four years later he moved to Berlin with a group of Russian artists including Pavel Tchelitchev, Jean Pougny and Lazare Meerson. In 1923, a contract for the decoration of a Montmartrean cabaret gave him this opportunity to go to Paris. Once in Paris, he studied the work of Rembrandt, Goya and Degas and understood the importance of drawing. In 1925 Antoine Bourdelle obtained his acceptance into the Salon des Tuileries. In 1934 he published an album entitled 'Cirque', comprising ten etchings and aquatints with a poem preface by George Rouault.&nbs...

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