Mane-Katz

Mane-Katz
Emmanuel Mane-Katz
"The Quartet," oil on canvas by Mane-Katz, 1930s

Emmanuel Mané-Katz, (Hebrew: מאנה‏ כץ) born Mane Leyzerovich Kats (1894–1962), was a Jewish painter born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe.[1]

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Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. There he became friends with Pablo Picasso and other important artists, and was affiliated with an art movement known as the Jewish School of Paris.

In 1931, Mane-Katz's painting, "The Wailing Wall," was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair.[2] Early on, his style was classical and somber, but his palette changed in later years to bright, primary colors, with an emphasis on Jewish themes. His oils feature Hassidic characters, rabbis, Jewish musicians, beggars, yeshiva students and scenes from the East European shtetl.[3]

Mane-Katz made his first trip to Palestine in 1928, and thereafter visited the country annually. He said his real home was Paris, but his spiritual home was Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel.

Mane-Katz museum

Mane-Katz left his paintings and extensive personal collection of Jewish ethnography to the city of Haifa, Israel. Four years before his death, the mayor of Haifa, Abba Hushi, provided him with a building on Mt. Carmel to house his work, which became the Mane-Katz Museum. The exhibit includes Mane-Katz's oils, showing a progressive change in style over the years, a signed portrait of the artist by Picasso dated 1932 and a large collection of Jewish ritual objects.

In 1953, Mane-Katz donated eight of his paintings to the Glitzenstein Museum in Safed, whose artists quarter attracted leading Israeli artists in the 1950s and 1960s, and housed some of the country's most important galleries.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1024907.html
  2. ^ Encyclopedia Judaica, "Mane-Katz," volume 11, p. 871, 1972
  3. ^ The picture at Menorah Journal: making "Jewish art". (Essay).(Editorial) - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical

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Bibliography

  • Mane-Katz, M. Ragon, 1961
  • Mane-Katz, A. Werner, 1960
  • Mane-Katz, J. Aimot, 1933



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