Isis Kischka
Parigi, 1908 - 1973
Artist of the Ecole de Paris, in 1946 he participated in the creation of the Salon des Peintres témoins de leur temps, with Jean Cassou, Yvon Bizardel, Raymond Cognait and Georges Recio.
He spent his childhood in Paris; his father of Polish origin was a restorer. He attended the municipal school, the high school and finally the commercial school in Paris. At the age of nineteen he became interested in painting and literature; his first work consisted in designing models for a medal factory. In contact with Jacques Copeau, Michel Saint-Denis, Charles Dullin and George Pitoëff, he tried to organize a theatre company, but returned to painting in 1927, attending the famous Académie de la "Grande Chaumière".
His paintings are noted by Parisian critics, particularly Waldemar George. In 1941, Kischka was arrested by order of the Gestapo and interned in the concentration camp in Romainville and then in Compiègne. Transferred to Drancy, he remained there for two years, until the departure of the German army in August 1944.
While in the camps he befriended other interned painters: Jacques Gotko, Savely, Schleifer and David Hoychmann. The group improvises some expositions of their works.
Back in Paris in 1945, to face the immediate financial difficulties, he resumed his father’s activity to earn a living and continued his art daily, before going to work.
In 1946 he participated in the creation of the Salon des Peintres témoins de leur temps, with Jean Cassou, Yvon Bizardel, Raymond Cognait and Georges Recio.
After exhibiting in numerous group exhibitions in France and abroad, from 1955 he had several solo exhibitions: Galerie Zak, Paris (1955); Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris (1957); Château-musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer (1958); Galerie Drouant, Paris (1959); Galerie Ecole de Paris, Paris (1965).
Museums:
Cagnes-sur-mer (Château Musée), France
New York (Jewish Museum),USA
Tel-Aviv, Israel
Bibliography:
N. Nieszawer, M. Boyé, P. Fogel, Peintres Juif à Paris, Ecole de Paris Editions Denoël, Paris, 2000
© Isis Kischka, by SIAE 2023
His paintings are noted by Parisian critics, particularly Waldemar George. In 1941, Kischka was arrested by order of the Gestapo and interned in the concentration camp in Romainville and then in Compiègne. Transferred to Drancy, he remained there for two years, until the departure of the German army in August 1944.
While in the camps he befriended other interned painters: Jacques Gotko, Savely, Schleifer and David Hoychmann. The group improvises some expositions of their works.
Back in Paris in 1945, to face the immediate financial difficulties, he resumed his father’s activity to earn a living and continued his art daily, before going to work.
In 1946 he participated in the creation of the Salon des Peintres témoins de leur temps, with Jean Cassou, Yvon Bizardel, Raymond Cognait and Georges Recio.
After exhibiting in numerous group exhibitions in France and abroad, from 1955 he had several solo exhibitions: Galerie Zak, Paris (1955); Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris (1957); Château-musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer (1958); Galerie Drouant, Paris (1959); Galerie Ecole de Paris, Paris (1965).
Museums:
Cagnes-sur-mer (Château Musée), France
New York (Jewish Museum),USA
Tel-Aviv, Israel
Bibliography:
N. Nieszawer, M. Boyé, P. Fogel, Peintres Juif à Paris, Ecole de Paris Editions Denoël, Paris, 2000
© Isis Kischka, by SIAE 2023
