A Little Paris Just Outside Warsaw Print

East European Jewish Artists Rediscovered at Warsaw’s Villa La Fleur

By Benjamin Ivry

When art lovers think of the early 20th-century movement known as École de Paris, such Eastern European Jewish superstars as Marc Chagall, Moïse Kisling, and Chaïm Soutine come to mind. All these celebrated artists went to France for inspiration, instruction and exaltation. Their contemporaries, however, included dozens of infinitely less famous Jewish artists of real quality such as Joachim Weingart, Jerzy Ascher, and Henryk Epstein. Read more