Mane katz biography
Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew: מאנה כץ), born Mane Leyzerovich Kats (–), was a Litvak painter of the School of Paris, born in Kremenchuk, Russian Empire .
Emmanuel Mané-Katz was..
Emmanuel Mané-Katz
French Jewish painter
Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew: מאנה כץ), born Mane Leyzerovich Kats (1894–1962), was a Litvak[1] painter of the School of Paris, born in Kremenchuk, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe.[2][3]
Biography
Mané-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art,[4] although his father wanted him to be a rabbi.
During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibiting in Petrograd; following the October Revolution, he traveled back to Kremenchuk, where he taught art.[4] In 1921, due to the ongoing fighting in his hometown during the civil war, he moved once again to Paris.[4] There he became friends with Pablo Picasso and other important artists, and was affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris;[4] together with other outstanding Jewish artists of that milieu,