Some names, like those of Chaïm Soutine or Otto Freundlich, resonate.
Otherwise, posterity has not inscribed on its tablets any of the 84 painters, sculptors or illustrators listed in the book by Hersh Fenster (1892-1964).
In 1951 this Yiddish journalist and writer published on his own behalf
Undzere Farpaynikte Kinstler
(
Our martyred artists
).
The only paper mausoleum dedicated to lifting from oblivion these young Jewish plastic artists, active in the pre-war capital.
All of them contributed to the exceptional effervescence of the Roaring Twenties.
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All except eight miraculous ended up in the camps or disappeared in general chaos, their works at the same time destroyed, or stolen and scattered.
Fenster, born in Galicia into a traditional Jewish family, disgusted by the pogroms, moved by the plight of the refugees and a supporter of self-defense, was himself a survivor.
A time interned by the Vichy regime he had succeeded in reaching Switzerland.
Fenster's portrait gallery
On his return to Paris in October 1945,
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