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The cover of a German-language book, shown against a white background. The cover features a black and white photograph of a man's face with an intense expression. The title, Gegen den Strom, is printed in large white letters over the image. Below the title is a block of text, and at the bottom are the logos for Hatje Cantz and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
An angled view of a hardcover book titled Chaïm Soutine against a white background. The cover features an expressionist portrait of a seated person with a pale face and dark clothing, painted with thick brushstrokes in warm tones of red, orange, and yellow. The artist's name is in white text on the cover and the black spine.
An open book with a two-page spread. The left page shows a vintage black-and-white photograph of several men in hats and coats standing outside a shop with Hebrew lettering on the window. The right page is white with black German text, titled Soutine – Künstler zweier Welten.
An overhead view of an open art book showing a two-page spread. Each page features a colorful and visceral expressionist still-life painting of a hanging animal carcass, fruit, and a pitcher, rendered with thick, textured brushstrokes against a dark background.
An open art book laid flat against a white background. The two-page spread displays two full-page expressionist portraits. On the left is a man in a blue jacket with distorted facial features, and on the right is a woman seated in a vibrant red dress, resting her chin on her hand.
A two-page spread from a German art book. The left page, titled Leihgeber*innen, is a list of lenders, including museums and institutions. The right page, titled Inhalt, is the table of contents, with chapter titles and page numbers related to the artist Chaïm Soutine.
A page from a German art book about the artist Chaïm Soutine. On the left is his painting La Colline de Céret, an abstract and turbulent landscape with thick, swirling brushstrokes in green and earth tones. On the right is the title in large letters, Aufregend, bewegend, ergreifend – die Bilder des Chaïm Soutine, followed by two columns of introductory text about the artist.
A page from a book displaying Chaïm Soutine's expressionist painting, Nature morte aux harengs. The artwork is a still life viewed from above, showing three herrings on an orange oval platter against a dark background. A white chef's hat is positioned behind the platter, and two hands with forks enter the frame from the sides, poised over the fish.
A page from an art book displaying two expressionist oil paintings with captions below. The larger painting on the left is a still life featuring a dead pheasant hanging over a table with a reflective platter and fruit. The smaller painting on the right shows a vase of wilting red gladioli against a dark, moody background.
A page from an art book showing an expressionist oil painting by Chaïm Soutine, L'Idiot du village. The portrait depicts a young man with short hair and distorted features, wearing a dark blue suit with a large white collar, seated in a chair against a textured red background. His large, gnarled hands are clasped in his lap.
A two-page spread from an art book showing two expressionist oil paintings by Chaim Soutine. On the left is Chef Pâtissier from 1923, a portrait of a chef with elongated features against a green background. On the right is Le Cuisinier de Cagnes from 1924, a similar portrait with rougher brushwork in a blue and white setting.
An open book page showing two expressionist oil paintings of landscapes in Cagnes, France, from around 1923-24. Both paintings use vibrant, swirling brushstrokes to depict steep, orange-colored paths winding through distorted green trees and houses under a blue sky. The painting on the left is horizontal, while the one on the right is vertical. Text captions are visible below the artworks.
A two-page spread in an art book showing two expressionist portraits from 1924. On the left, a full-length painting of a girl in a white communion dress and veil. On the right, a portrait of a person in a dark blue dress with a large collar, sitting with their hands clasped.
A page from an art catalog displaying three expressionist still-life paintings by Chaïm Soutine. Two smaller paintings on the left and a larger one on the right all depict dead pheasants lying on white cloths. The works are characterized by thick, agitated brushwork and somber tones against dark backgrounds.
A page from an art book featuring Chaïm Soutine's expressionist painting, Le Groom. A bellboy in a stark red uniform and hat sits with his hands on his hips. His face is pale, elongated, and distorted, with large, sorrowful eyes that look downward. The background is dark and roughly painted, emphasizing the subject's weary and unsettling appearance.
A two-page spread from an art book. On the left is a painting of a large, gnarled tree with a dark, twisted trunk and green foliage, with a pale building in the background. On the right is a smaller painting of a woman with long dark hair, wearing a white shirt, lying on her stomach and reading a book. Captions for both paintings are printed below the image on the right.
A two-page spread from an art book in German. The right page, titled Biografie, contains text about the artist Chaïm Soutine and a small black-and-white portrait of a young man in a cap. The left page features a large, grainy, black-and-white double-exposure photograph of Soutine from 1927, which creates a distorted and blurry effect on his face.
Chaïm Soutine
Gegen den Strom
€ 40.00
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Edited by: Susanne Gaensheimer, Susanne Meyer-Büser
Graphic Design: Mathias Beyer
Texts by: Claire Bernardi, Marta Dziewanska, Susanne Meyer-Büser, Sophie Krebs, Pascale Samuel, Catherine Frèrejean
German
August 2023, 176 Pages, 155 Photos
Hardcover
100mm x 100mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5540-5

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de


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| An insatiable Hunger for Life
Clenched, raw and pressingly urgent: Chaïm Soutine's vivid paintings are testimonies to a sense of human vulnerability and an existence on the margins of society. Intensely colored, his meaty impasto portraits are thrown onto the canvas with broad brushstrokes, while his agitated, frenetic landscapes and paintings of slaughtered animals are expressions of an intense hunger for life and, at the same time, a deep alienation in an unsteady world that offers no support. Despite the recognition his work received, Soutine remained an outsider throughout his life, a stranger to the social manners of his adopted home in France. This catalogue focuses on the early masterpieces and series he created between 1919 and 1925: Under the overarching theme of emigration and uprooting, the contributions reveal the traces of Soutine's Jewish origins in his work, illuminating the significance of his motifs from the fringes of society as well as of blood and animal carcasses as metaphors; and show the influences of Soutine's art up to the present day.

This book is also available in English.

CHAÏM SOUTINE (1893 - 1943) grew up in a shtetl near Minsk - a youth marked by poverty, religious rigor and social exclusion. In 1913 he arrived in Paris and moved into the artist residence "La Ruche" (the "Beehive"), working alongside artists such as Chagall and Modigliani. Fleeing the Nazis, he died in 1943, but the international attention his work had received since the 1920s continued to have great influence on post-war art, inspiring Abstract Expressionism, new figurative painting as well as contemporary artists.
EXHIBITIONS
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20, Düsseldorf
September 2, 2023 - January 14, 2024
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
February 10 - June 16, 2024
Kunstmuseum Bern
August 16 - December 1,2024
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