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Pinchus Kremegne

Pinchus Kremegne (1890 - 1981) was active/lived in Russian Federation, France.  Pinchus Kremegne is known for Still life, figure, landscape and nude figure painting, sculpture, lithography.

Pinchus Kremegne was a Litvak-French artist, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer.  He was a native of Zhaludak near Lida, and was a friend of both Chaim Soutine and Michel Kikoine. He studied sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Art. He became a target of the pogroms because he was a Jew and fled to Paris in 1912.

In Paris, Kremegne joined the group of painters of Montparnasse and soon became one of the respected residents of La Ruche. In 1915, he gave up sculpture in order to dedicate himself to painting. It was he who encouraged Soutine to come to Paris.

Kremegne left Paris to live in a small town in the Pyrenees called Ceret, a village a little inland from Collioure, which attracted other painters such as Soutine. Although Soutine did not like the town very much, he completed many paintings there over a couple of years. He never settled but his compatriot Kremegne had a house built there around 1960. This small unassuming house, a reflection o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3114 characters.]  Artist bio

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