Arthur Segal, Halen: Ciotat (Harbour Scene), 1929
Oil on canvas
Arthur Segal was born in 1875 to Jewish parents in Jassy, Romania. He left school early to study painting first in Berlin, then Munich, Paris and Italy. He settled in Berlin in 1904 and exhibited with artists of the group Die Brücke (which included Kirchner, Nolde and Schmidt-Rotluff), who used rough brushstrokesand lively, expressionist colours. At the outbreak of World War l, Segal and his family sought refuge in Ascona, Switzerland. He exhibited with Dada (an anti-war and anti-civilization group) at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, He developed his own style of painting in which he tried to break with a single point of focus or dominance. He said, ‘In nature everything is of equal importance and interest.’
Segal returned to Berlin in 1920, running his own art school from 1923 until 1933. As well
as painting and teaching, he created woodcuts, wrote articles for newpapers and art journals as well as books and lectured widely, both live and on the radio. Banned, as a Jew, from exhibiting his art in 1933, Segal moved first to Mallorca and then, in 1936, to London, where he ran another art school. Segal was interested in the effects of painting as a therapy for mental illness. He corresponded with many psychoanalysts and psychiatrists and had the support of Sigmund Freud. Segal died in 1944 in London.
Works by Arthur Segal in other collections
Harbour on Bornholm 1928 (Tate collection)
Many works by Arthur Segal can be found at:
http://www.artnet.com/1301271/arthur-segal.html
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