ROBERT GENIN ( Vysokoye 1884 - 1941 Moscow )

ROBERT GENIN ( Vysokoye 1884 - 1941 Moscow )
At the well, 1912
lithograph/paper 19 x 17 cm
sheet dimension 45 x 40 cm
signed R Genin

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Robert Genin (French: Robert Guénine) was a Belarusian-born painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and writer who lived in Russia, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the Soviet Union. His style developed from Art Nouveau (drawings for the Munich magazine "Jugend") in 1907–1910 to Symbolism/Neoclassicism in 1911–1914; with the outbreak of World War II, Genin turned to Expressionism. At the end of the 1920s, Genin turned to lyrical primitivism. In 1937, eleven of Genin's works were confiscated from various museums and partially destroyed as part of the Nazi campaign "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art. A comprehensive retrospective exhibition was held at the Murnau Castle Museum in 1919. From 1898 to 1900, Genin attended the drawing school in Vilna, and from 1900 to 1902 the one in Odessa. In 1902 he went to Munich and studied at Anton Azbe's private painting school. From 1903 he studied in Paris, where he was particularly impressed by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. From 1904 to 1907 Genin traveled to France, Italy and Egypt, where he stayed with a sister in 1905. In 1905 Genin moved to the Parisian artists' colony La Ruche. From 1907 onwards, 40 of Genin's illustrations were published in the Munich magazine "Jugend". In 1907 Genin exhibited seven pictures in the Herbstsalon in Paris, but then returned to Munich due to financial difficulties. There he came into contact with Marianne von Werefkin, Alexei Jawlensky and Vladimir Bekhteyeff. In 1911 he attended exhibitions of the Neue Künstlervereinigung (New Artists' Association, N.K.V.M.) and Der Blaue Reiter (the blue rider) at the Thannhauser Gallery; and he was a member of the Sema artists' group, along with Paul Klee, Alfred Kubin, and others. Thannhauser signed Genin in 1913. In the same year, Fritz Burger's Delphin publishing house published the book „Cézanne und Hodler. Einführung in die Probleme der Malerei“, which honoured Genin. Genin was a founding member of the Munich New Secession in 1913. Genin was interned in Trudering-Riem near Munich at the outbreak of the First World War. Nevertheless, in 1917, the Munich Modern Gallery Thannhauser held a solo exhibition of Genin's work. After the war, Genin moved to Berlin. In 1919, following Jawlensky and Werefkin, he moved to Ascona, where his contacts with the Basel art collector Karl Im Obersteg, Cuno Amiet, and the dancer couple Alexander Sacharoff and Clotilde von Derp played a role. In 1923, Genin moved into a studio in Berlin, which was made available to him by Alfred Flechtheim. In 1926, by then disabled by a knee joint condition, Genin traveled to Bali via Genoa, Port Said, Colombo, Singapore, and Java. Among Genin's friends during his time in Berlin was Karl Hofer. In 1929, Genin moved to Paris. In 1931, he had a successful solo exhibition at the Jacques Bonjean Gallery. That winter, he signed a sponsorship agreement with the collector Emil Kade in St. Moritz, as a result of which Kade supplied him with a total of 24 paintings. Im Obersteg lobbied the director of the Kunsthalle Basel, Wilhelm Barth, for a Russian exhibition featuring Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Chagall, Genin, Soutine, and others, to be held in 1933. In 1936, Genin returned to Russia and settled in Moscow, where he reunited with former N.K.V.M. member Alexander Mogilevsky. Genin created a fresco for the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition and another for the Palace of Soviets.

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