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David Lan-Bar (1912-1987)
Pseudonym of Lanberg David. Born 1912 in Rave-Russkaye (Poland). Died 1987 in Paris. 20th century. Active since 1948 in France. Polish. Painter. Abstract. He immigrated to Israel in 1935, where he attended university and took up painting, studying with Streichman and Stematsky. In 1948, he moved to Paris, where he took courses at the École des Beaux-Arts. He participated in numerous group exhibitions, notably in Paris: Salons des Réalités Nouvelles from 1959 to 1963, Indépendants, Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd’hui, Comparaisons, as well as Biennale de Menton in 1955, Biennale de Sao Paulo in 1961. He has also exhibited at the Tel-Aviv Museum, the Haifa Museum of Modern Art, the Paris Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Art Institute and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The Vesoul Museum in 1988 and the Israeli Museum of Paris in 1993-1994 have devoted retrospective exhibitions to him, as well as the Lelia Mordoch gallery in Paris in 1991,1993,1995,1998. From a tormented figuration, he evolved towards abstraction in the fifties. Worked with a knife, with violence, the colors bloom in a luminous composition. Traits, lines overlap, come to collide, perfectly controlled.
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