His expressive paintings shed light on his life as a Jewish emigrant and at the same time bear witness to an unstable existence on the fringes of society. His unique paintings are at once sensitive and drastic. With tempestuous brushstrokes, explosions of color, and distortions of form, he created declarations of love for life and for people on the lowest rung of societyโan experience Soutine was able to share through his own biography. Bellboys, chambermaids, cooks, altar boys, and choir boys were his models.
With them, as with his paintings of swaying landscapes and slaughtered animals, he created powerful images for an entire eraโa generation marked by war, social ills, and the relentless clash of religious and political worldviews.
The people and motifs depicted are deeply moving because their vulnerability expresses the existential anxieties of our own time.
In , he moved to Paris. Although the metropolis became his surrogate home, he remained an outsider throughout his life, who initially had a poor command of the language and was unfamiliar with social conventions. Among his few friends was the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. He ignored artist groups as well as the leading trends of Surrealism and Cubism.
Soutine, who had an enormous influence on painting after , is one of the key representatives of early modernism; in Germany, he is revered especially in artistic circles. Audio guide to the exhibitionโavailable exclusively and free of charge with the admission ticket! Kaczmarczyk studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin and has been an ensemble member of the Dรผsseldorf Schauspielhaus since Since , he has been investigating as the first gender-fluid chief detective, Vincent Ross, in the television series Polizeiruf Order Catalog.
