Mané-Katz

Painter, teacher. Born as Mane (Emmanuel) Kats in the family of Leizer Kats in Kremenchug in Poltava Province (1894). Studied at the Kiev Institute of Art (1911–13), École nationale superieure des beaux-arts in Paris (where he met Chaïm Soutine) and at the New Art Studio of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky in Petrograd (1916–17). Taught at the Kharkiv Fine Arts Academy and was an important figure in Kharkiv’s literary and artistic life (1918–19). Member of the Group of Three, Liren and Family Union. Contributed to the Seven Plus Three album-collection (1918). Lived in Berlin (1921–22) and Paris (from 1922), awarded French citizenship (1927). Painted portraits, genre scenes, Jewish religious rites and landscapes. Travelled widely in the Near East, Southern Europe and America (1920s–30s). Lived in New York (1940–45), returned to Paris. Awarded the Légion d’honneur (1951). Lived in Israel (1961–62). Died in Tel Aviv (1962). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1916). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Jewish Society for Encouragement of the Arts (1916), World of Art (1916), First Pictures of the Union of Arts (1918), Second Kharkiv Arts Department (1919), Salon d’Automne (from 1926), Salon des Tuileries (from 1926), Salon des Indépendants (from 1924), Super-Independent (from 1930), All-Ukrainian Jubilee (Kiev-Kharkiv, 1927–28), Contemporary French Art in Moscow (1928), In Honour of Victory (Paris, 1946), Russian Artists of the Paris School (Paris, 1961), Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris (1937, gold medal) and one-man shows in Kharkiv (1919), Paris (1923, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1938, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1957), Prague (1926), Brussels (1926), Warsaw (1927, 1932), Amsterdam (1936), London (1936, 1951, 1955, 1960), Kaunas (1937), New York (annually 1938–54, 1961), Tel Aviv (1948, 1954), Brussels (1949), Johannesburg (1950), Buenos Aires (1952), Strasbourg (1954), Mexico (1956), Tokyo (1957), Haifa (1958) and Geneva (1959, 1961).