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Evsa Model
American, born Russia, 1899 - 1976
DiedNew York, New York
BornNikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russia
BiographyFrom Winkipedia:Evsei Model was born in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East. He is the son of Constantin Model and Sarah Feitzer. He left his hometown in 1916. He intends to devote himself to his emerging passion: painting. He traveled to China, Japan, India, Egypt and Italy before joining Paris , where he settled in July 1921. In 1926, he joined the movement " Circle and Square ", while opening the library-gallery The aesthetics at 90, boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris. 3 , 4 . In 1930, he was in Saint-Jeannet in the Alpes-Maritimes , then in 1935 he moved to Nice where he lives with Lisette Seybert (who will become the famous photographer Lisette Model ). He married her on September 7, 1937 in Paris. The couple emigrated to the United States the following year, in October 1938. Based in New York, he Americanized his name by transforming it into Evsa. He decorates with murals the various apartments that the couple occupies, transforming them into a kind of total work, of work to live. In the early 1940s , he made his first paintings dedicated to the theme of the city. It is a synthesized city, abstract, although one can glimpse New York and its avenues, its skyscrapers. The echoes between the photographs of his wife Lisette Model and his paintings are numerous and fertile. In 1945 he exhibited at the Rose Fried Gallery in New York, and it is in 1948 that he exhibited in the prestigious gallery of Sidney Janis, also in New York. In the early 1950s (probably between 1951 and 1953) he opened a group painting class in his apartment, whose motto is Art as self-expression . Little is known about the end of his life. Living somewhat in the shadow of the growing reputation of his wife, he died on October 19, 1976 in New York 3 .
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