Georges Kars, a Bohemian in Paris

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, 71 Rue du Temple

Major painter of the Paris School, today largely unknown, the Czech Georges Kars finds his full place at the mahJ in this first major retrospective for more than forty years. Georges Kars (Prague, 1880 – Geneva, 1945) belongs to this generation of artists from Central Europe who made Paris one of the main centers of artistic modernity. Trained in Munich before settling permanently in France in 1919, he develops an original body of work where the heritage of expressionism and cubism progressively yields to a deeply personal figuration,…