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Philippe Hosiasson BIOGRAPHY
1898 Odessa, Ukraine - 1978. Known for: Avant-garde, abstract painting.
Philippe Hosiasson grew up in Odessa in family of merchants, relatives of the Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960). Between 1910 and 1912, Hosiasson traveled to Berlin with his parents and got... Read full biography
Philippe Hosiasson grew up in Odessa in family of merchants, relatives of the Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960). Between 1910 and 1912, Hosiasson traveled to Berlin with his parents and got in touch with the occidental avant-garde. He started drawing very early and in 1912, after a short... Read full biography
Philippe Hosiasson grew up in Odessa in family of merchants, relatives of the Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960). Between 1910 and 1912, Hosiasson traveled to Berlin with his parents and got in touch with the occidental avant-garde. He started drawing very early and in 1912, after a short stay at the Academy of Fine Arts of Odessa, he studied law and history of art at the University of Odessa. In 1917, he published a text on El Gréco. In 1918, he married Olga Bilinsky and in 1920 his... Read full biography
Philippe Hosiasson grew up in Odessa in family of merchants, relatives of the Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960). Between 1910 and 1912, Hosiasson traveled to Berlin with his parents and got in touch with the occidental avant-garde. He started drawing very early and in 1912, after a short stay at the Academy of Fine Arts of Odessa, he studied law and history of art at the University of Odessa. In 1917, he published a text on El Gréco. In 1918, he married Olga Bilinsky and in 1920 his university sent him to Rome where he met André Derain, who was working for Diaghilev's ballets. Fascinated by the Romans, he drew everything around him, the crowds, the streets. In 1922, Hosiasson was in Berlin where he was, in turn, set designer for... Read full biography
Philippe Hosiasson grew up in Odessa in family of merchants, relatives of the Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960). Between 1910 and 1912, Hosiasson traveled to Berlin with his parents and got in touch with the occidental avant-garde. He started drawing very early and in 1912, after a short stay at the Academy of Fine Arts of Odessa, he studied law and history of art at the University of Odessa. In 1917, he published a text on El Gréco. In 1918, he married Olga Bilinsky and in 1920 his university sent him to Rome where he met André Derain, who was working for Diaghilev's ballets. Fascinated by the Romans, he drew everything around him, the crowds, the streets. In 1922, Hosiasson was in Berlin where he was, in turn, set designer for the Russian ballets of Boris Romanov. Hosiasson arrived in Paris in 1924 and obtained French citizenship in 1928. With Léon... Read full biography
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Philippe Hosiasson grew up in Odessa in family of merchants, relatives of the Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960). Between 1910 and 1912, Hosiasson traveled to Berlin with his parents and got in touch with the occidental avant-garde. He started drawing very early and in 1912, after a short stay at the Academy of Fine Arts of Odessa, he studied law and history of art at the University of Odessa.
In 1917, he published a text on El Gréco.
In 1918, he married Olga Bilinsky and in 1920 his university sent him to Rome where he met André Derain, who was working for Diaghilev's ballets. Fascinated by the Romans, he drew everything around him, the crowds, the streets.
In 1922, Hosiasson was in Berlin where he was, in turn, set designer for the Russian ballets of Boris Romanov.
Hosiasson arrived in Paris in 1924 and obtained French citizenship in 1928. With Léon Zack, he joined the neo-humanist group founded in 1930 by Waldemar George and the young painters of the Ransons Academy.
In 1937, he participated in the International exhibition of Paris for the decorations of the Martinique Lodge. Enrolled in 1939 in the war, Philippe Hosiasson was seriously wounded in Dunkerque. He spent the years of Occupation in Toulouse, Marseille and in the region of Nice.
He then came back to Paris in 1948 after a long illness triggered by his wound.
Philippe Hosiasson painted his last abstract picture for the National Front of Marseilles in 1945. Between 1947 and 1948, he started painting his first "informal" canvas that Michel Tapié and Michel Seuphor would classify as Abstract expressionism.
Supported by Clement Greenberg, he gained momentum and showed with Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Kenneth Noland at the Kootz gallery of New York. According to the artist, abstraction isn't only about the strict application of the biblical story, which bans the reproduction of the image, but it constitutes "his way to express his conception of the world and of his Judaism".
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