사무엘 할퍼트(Samuel Halpert), 러시아, 화가, 1884~1930

사무엘 할퍼트(Samuel Halpert), 러시아, 화가, 1884~1930

사무엘 할퍼트(Samuel Halpert), 러시아, 화가, 1884~1930

사무엘 할퍼트(Samuel Halpert), 러시아, 화가, 1884~1930

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사무엘 할퍼트(Samuel Halpert), 러시아, 화가, 1884~1930

사무엘 할퍼트(Samuel Halpert), 러시아, 화가, 1884~1930

사무엘 할퍼트(Samuel Halpert), 러시아, 화가, 1884~1930

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사무엘 할퍼트(Samuel Halpert), 러시아, 화가, 1884~1930

사무엘 할퍼트(Samuel Halpert), 러시아, 화가, 1884~1930

러시아에서 태어난 '사무엘 헬퍼트'는 5살 때 가족과 함께 뉴욕으로 왔습니다. 유대인 거주지역에 같이 살던 동네 친구와 미술관 구경을 다니다가 예술에 대한 관심을 키웠습니다. 본격적으로 미술 공부하기 위해 파리로 갔죠. 그곳에서 후기인상파, 야수파 화가들과 친하게 지내며 많은 영향을 받았답니다.

 

30살 무렵에 뉴욕으로 돌아와 혼잡한 도시 풍경을 많이 그렸죠. 그의 작품들은 약간은 단조롭지만 생기가 넘치며, 무척 모던한 분위기입니다. 유능한 미술 딜러와 결혼한 덕에 재정적 성공을 거두긴  했으나, 결혼생활은 실패했고 건강 때문에 일찍 세상을 떠나고 말았죠.

그가 그린 100년 전의 뉴욕 풍경, 브루클린 다리, 타임스퀘어 등을 구경해보세요.

 

                                                                                 About Artist: Samuel Halpert

Born in Bialystok, Russia, (now northeastern Poland) Samuel Halpert emigrated to the United States in 1890 with his parents when he was age five. He was raised in the Lower East Side tenement area with other East European Jewish immigrants. One of his adult friends at that time was sculptor Jacob Epstein who took him to art museums, and encouraged his artistic talents and interests.

 

During the 1890s, he lived on and off in Paris. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York with J Carroll Beckwith, who raised funds to send Halpert to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts with Leon Bonnat. He also studied at the Academie Julian with Jean Paul Laurens, but left the school to “learn on the streets of Paris” and from the Old Masters in the Louvre.

 

He exhibited at the Salon d’Automne, a venue for modernist works. However, at this point in his career, he considered himself an impressionist combining influences of French Impressionism, James Whistler, Childe Hassam, and John Twachtmann.

 

Halpert became a pioneer of modern art in America, having been in Paris at a revolutionary time in the art world during the first decade of the 20th century. His painting was influenced by Paul Cezanne and the French avant-garde, and in adapting the French culture, he had an edge in that he, unlike most American artists, spoke and wrote French fluently. He formed close friendships with modernists Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Fernand Leger, Jean Metsinger, and some of the older artists including Henri Rousseau and Henri Matisse.

 

After about three years in Paris, he returned to New York, where he met Alfred Stieglitz and became exposed to the avant-garde activities of Stieglitz’s Little Galleries of the Succession (291). He stayed in New York for less than a year before returning to Paris where he developed his own style that embodied Post-Impressionism and Fauvism.

 

He returned to New York City during 1911 to 1914, the time of the 1913 Armory Show that had such a profound modernist impact on American art. Although he lived and painted in the city, he also painted extensively in the countryside. He exhibited in the Armory Show and encouraged other artists towards modernism including Marsden Hartley. He became close friends and mentor with Man Ray, whose work went towards Dadaism, something Halpert did not embrace.

 

From 1914 to 1916, he was in Paris and then returned to New York. In 1918, he married Edith Fein, an art student and very adept businesswoman. They lived both in and out of the city, with him painting both landscapes and city scenes. He also painted numerous interior scenes, often with Edith posed as a figure subject. However, his income was minimal, and to supplement, he did mural painting.

 

The marriage became strained, major factors being that Halpert had constant ringing in his ears and that he felt diminished by her ability to earn much more money than he. It was thought that the ringing in his ears was psychosomatic, but towards the end of his life, they learned it was the result of childhood meningitis.

 

They spent time in France trying to maintain their relationship, and then returned to New York. In 1926, Edith founded the Downtown Gallery, a very successful venture. In 1927, he became head of the painting department at the Society of Arts and crafts in Detroit, having been recommended by John Sloan. This position brought him some financial success. He stayed in touch with New York family and friends; Edith’s Gallery represented him, and although the marriage broke up, he and Edith remained friends with her as his art dealer.

 

Just as his finances were strengthening as well as his reputation, the stock market crash of 1929 hit. Halpert died the next year in Detroit at age 45.

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