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Georges Kars, a Bohemian in Paris
Culture · Friday, October 30 · 11:00 · 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 regains his full place at the mahJ in this first major retrospective in over forty years. Georges Kars (Prague, 1880 – Geneva, 1945) belongs to that generation of Central European artists 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 gradually yields to a deeply personal figuration,…
