5 facts about Pinchus Kremegne

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Pinchus Krémègne, aka Pinchus Kremegne (Hebrew: פנחס קרמין‎; Russian: Пинхус Кремень; 28 July 1890 – 5 April 1981), was a Lithuanian Jewish-French artist, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer.

He was a native of Zhaludak close Lida, and was a buddy of both Chaim Soutine and Michel Kikoine. He studied sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Art. He became a direct of the pogroms because he was a Jew and fled to Paris in 1912. In Paris, Kremegne allied the intervention of painters of Montparnasse and soon became one of the respected residents of La Ruche. In 1915, he gave happening sculpture in order to dedicate himself to painting. It was he who encouraged Soutine to allow Paris. He left Paris to sentient in a little town in the Pyrenees called Ceret. This village, which is a Tiny inland from Collioure, attracted supplementary painters such as Soutine. Although Soutine did not when the town definitely much, he completed many paintings there higher than a couple of years. He never granted but his compatriot Kremegne had a house built there all but 1960. This small unassuming house, a extra of the man himself, is nestled into the mountain and overlooks the village.

There was a falling out in the company of the two men perhaps stemming from some ingratitude shown by Soutine towards a mutual ‘mecene’ or benefactor who had helped out the two impoverished artists during their at the forefront careers in Paris. Kremegne’s house has supplementary occupants and it is called La Miranda del Convent. Later Ceret was to attract new painters such as Picasso. The Picasso saunter meanders by Kremegne’s house and Ceret has an important museum exhibiting artists such as Matisse, Picasso, and others. There are a few Kremegne paintings upon exhibition there as well.

Kremegne died in Ceret.

Underestimated as an player today, he is overshadowed by Soutine and Chagall. He was remembered when a posthumous one-man law in the Quartier Les Halles in Paris in the 1990s. A more structured vision of nature than Soutine’s, Kremegne’s last paintings prefigure the proceed of painters such as Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach in England.