Leopold Gottlieb’s artistic Contacts in Paris at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, part 2
- 9.12.2025
What was the international artistic community in interwar Paris like? It was shaped as much by shared ideas as personal relations.
This time, our archives show the artist alongside figures from various places across Europe: Chana Orloff – a Ukrainian sculptor whose work took Paris and Tel Aviv by storm; Max Band, a Lithuanian painter on a path that was to take him as far as Hollywood, and Marcel Gromaire, a French Expressionist revived by the spirit of Cubism.
Each of these contacts testified to a network of connections that propelled artistic exchange. A portraitist of souls, Gottlieb remained at the centre of that dynamic creative community where diverse artistic paths and languages came together.
The photographs come from the artist's family archive, digitised as part of a project co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.
Galeria
Jerzy Ascher
(born 1884 in Warsaw – died 1944 in Auschwitz)
A painting by Ascher
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Max Band
(born 1900 in Naumestis, Lithuania – died 1974 in Hollywood)
A painting by Band
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Aleksander (Sasza) Blonder
(born 1909 in Chortkiv – died 1949 in Paris)
A painting by Blonder
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Chana Orloff
(born 1888 in Staro-Konstantinov, Ukraine – died 1968 in Tel HaShomer, Israel)
A sculpture by Orloff
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Marcel Gromaire
(born 1892 in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France – died 1971 in Paris)
A painting by Gromaire
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Rajmund Kanelba
(born 1897 in Warsaw – died 1960 in London)
A painting by Kanelba
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Funding project
Co-funding for this project was provided by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.