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Alice Halicka or Alicja Halicka (20 December 1894 – 1 January 1975) was a Jewish-Polish painter who spent most of her life in France.

Alice Halicka
Born	(1894-12-20)20 December 1894 Kraków, Poland
Died	1 January 1975(1975-01-01) (aged 80) Paris, France
Nationality	Polish
Education	Académie Ranson
Known for	Painting
Spouse	Louis Marcoussis ​ (m. 1913)​

Biography

Alicja Halicka was born in Kraków and studied with Józef Pankiewicz there. She moved to Paris in 1912 where she studied at Académie Ranson under Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis. There she met and married the Cubist painter Louis Marcoussis in 1913. In 1921 she showed cubist work together with her husband at the Société des Artistes Indépendants. She also exhibited her work at the Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (1930–31), Le Centaure, Brussels, the Leicester Galleries, London (1934),[1] the Marie Harriman Gallery, New York (1936), Julian Levy Gallery, New York (1937).[2] Halicka painted in various styles but also produced work in fabric, including Romances capitonnées,[1] and even made set designs for ballets which were performed at the Metropolitan Opera of New York and Covent Garden, London.[3][4]

She spent World War II in France and wrote a memoir afterwards called Hier, souvenirs, published in 1946. Halicka died in Paris in 1975.[4]

Citations

References

• Birnbaum, Paula J. (1999). “Alice Halicka’s Self-Effacement.” In Diaspora and Modern Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews, edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff, 207–23. London/New York: Routledge, 1999.
• Birnbaum, Paula J. (2011) Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. Print.
• Troy, Nancy J. (2006). "'The Societe Anonyme: modernism for America'; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles." Artforum International 45.2 (2006) : 255-256. Print.
• Cailler, Pierre, ed. (1962). Alice Halicka: Documents. Geneva: Editions Pierre Cailler (Les Cahiers d’Art - Documents Series).
• Halicka, Alice. Hier (Souvenirs) (1946). Paris: Editions de Pavois.
• Warnod, Jeanine. “Alice Halicka et ses souvenirs.” Terre d’Europe 48 (May 1974).

External links

• Alice Halicka on artnet
• (in Polish) Alicja Halicka - Życie i twórczość, biography at Culture.pl

На других языках

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[de] Alice Halicka

Alice Halicka oder Alicja Halicka (* als Alice Rosenblatt, 20. Dezember 1894 in Krakau, Österreich-Ungarn; † 1. Januar 1975 in Paris) war eine französische Malerin und Illustratorin polnischer Herkunft und Ehefrau des kubistischen Malers Louis Marcoussis. Ihr Werk wird der École de Paris zugeschrieben.

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- [en] Alice Halicka

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[fr] Alice Halicka

Alicja Halicka, née à Cracovie (Pologne) le 20 décembre 1889 et morte à Paris le 30 décembre 1974, est une artiste juive polonaise, naturalisée française. Connue surtout pour sa peinture, elle a eu une production artistique très riche : peinture, illustration, collage, dessin, textile, conception de décors et de costumes.

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[it] Alice Halicka

Alice Halicka, all'anagrafe Alicja Rosenblatt, (Cracovia, 20 dicembre 1889 – Parigi, 30 dicembre 1974), è stata una pittrice polacca naturalizzata francese. Conosciuta soprattutto per la pittura, ha avuto una produzione artistica molto varia, che oltre alla pittura ha abbracciato l'illustrazione, il collage, il disegno, l'arte tessile e la decorazione.

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