The Term École de Paris
The Displacement of East European Jewish Artists from the Modern Canon
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
Since the start of the 20th century, artistic life in Paris has been marked by a vital, productive coexistence and cooperation between French and foreign artists. Many of them had come to France from Eastern Europe and decisively shaped the contours of modern art. This art scene was called the École de Paris. Socio-political developments after the First World War, rising anti-Semitism, the German occupation, and the Holocaust had a massive effect on the art world. Jewish artists from Eastern Europe in particular were excluded from the École de Paris and eliminated from the collective consciousness. Only recently has the contribution made by East European Jewish artists to the canon of Western modernity been rediscovered.
(Osteuropa 10-11/2023, pp. 193–206)