Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Born in Lodz in Russian Poland on January 10th 1893, having lived in France since 1911, Waldemar Jarocinski, called Waldemar-George, rapidly became one of the most influential art critics between the two World Wars. His name is linked to the École de Paris of which he was as a young man one of the promoters, and to the neo-humanist movement for which he was a passionate champion during the years 1930. Opposed to the abstract art as well as to any distorted figurative art, after the second World-War Waldemar-George finally admitted the informal or tachisme tendency as satisfactory enough for his unremitting quest for man through art. In spite of his being the author of thousands of articles, prefaces, presentations of exhibitions and numerous essays, Waldemar-George still remains unknown. This is the first article trying to present a biographic synthesis with the essential help of the texts of Waldemar-George himself, mainly those which can be found in a substantial file deposited in the Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC) by his grandson.
Source: Archives Juives
DOI: 10.3917/aj.412.0101
Author: Yves Chèvrefils Desbiolles
Institution: Institut Mémoires de l'Edition Contemporaine
Language: French
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1604600792