Leopold Gottlieb’s artistic contacts in Paris at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, part 3
- 16.12.2025
Montparnasse teemed with life in the two decades between the world wars. The final look at the Leopold Gottlieb archives reveals photographs depicting the network of artistic relations at its height.
One of its members was Mojżesz Kisling, an École de Paris icon and a friend from the Kraków years whose studio in Montparnasse became legendary for being a bohemian salon. Others included Marek Szwarc, a sculptor and painter from the Jewish avant-garde circle, and Leon Indenbaum, a sculptor creating in a subtle linear style.
Every encounter was testimony to a close friendship and lively exchange of inspirations. The photographs in the Gottlieb archives show a world in which a Parisian studio was no less than a true centre of the artistic universe – a place where a collective story about beauty and form was being shaped, regardless of the creators’ origin or language.
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
Mojżesz Kisling
(ur. 1891 w Krakowie – zm. 1953 w Sanary-sur-Mer we Francji)
A painting by Kisling
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Leon Indenbaum
(born 1890 in Czausy – died 1981 in Opio, France)
A sculpture by Indenbaum
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Reuven Rubin
(born 1893 in Galatz, Romania – died 1974 in Tel Aviv)
A painting by Rubin
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Valentine Prax
(born 1897 in Annaba, Algeria – died 1981 in Paris)
A painting by Prax
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Moïse Kogan
(born 1879 in Orgiev in Bessarabia, now Orhei in Moldova – died 1943 in Auschwitz)
A sculpture by Kogan
Photograph from the Gottlieb family archive.
Marek Szwarc
(born 1892 in Zgierz – died 1958 in Paris)
A relief by Szwarc
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