Pinchus Kremegne - Artist Info

About Pinchus Kremegne

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Pinkchus Krenegne
  • Biography

    Pinchus Kremegne was a Litvak-French artist, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer. He was a native of Zhaludak near Lida, and was a friend of both Chaim Soutine and Michel Kikoine. He studied sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Art. He became a target of the pogroms because he was a Jew and fled to Paris in 1912.

    In Paris, Kremegne joined the group of painters of Montparnasse and soon became one of the respected residents of La Ruche. In 1915, he gave up sculpture in order to dedicate himself to painting. It was he who encouraged Soutine to come to Paris.

    Kremegne left Paris to live in a small town in the Pyrenees called Ceret, a village a little inland from Collioure, which attracted other painters ...

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