Zygmunt Landau (1898-1962) - Stilleven met Judaspenningen

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Zygmunt Landau was born in 1898 into a Jewish family of rabbis in Łódź, Poland, and later studied with fellow Jewish artist Henri Epstein at Jakub Kacenbogen’s drawing school before enrolling in Stanisław Lentz’s studio at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. By the age of 18, he was already teaching painting. He arrived in Paris in 1920 and settled in the artists’ colony La Ruche (the beehive), where he attended the Grande Chaumière and the Académie Colarossi and befriended Moïse Kisling. In 1928, he returned to Poland to exhibit in Warsaw and Łódź. His work also gained recognition in Great Britain and the United States, thanks to his friendship with the influential British painter and critic Roger Fry, with whom he later shared an apartment in Saint-Tropez. In the late 1930s, Landau illustrated Edmond Fleg’s Ecoute Israel (Listen Israel), published by La Cigogne editions. When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, Landau fled to Saint-Tropez, where he remained, also living in Nice and Paris, where he regularly exhibited, as well as in London and Stockholm. In the late 1950s, he settled in Israel. In 1962, he produced stained-glass windows for the small chapel of the Y.M.C.A. in Tiberias, Israel. He died in Israel later that same year. Landau’s lively French landscapes, both probably dating from the 1930s, show his admiration for Cézanne.