1893 – 1943

LITHUANIAN-FRENCH

EXPRESSIONISM

Chaim Soutine was a Belarusian born painter known for his emotionally charged and expressive style. Soutine moved to Paris in 1913 to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He developed a distinctive approach to painting that blended vivid color, thick impasto, and distorted forms to convey intense psychological and emotional states. His subjects ranged from portraits of servants and peasants to turbulent still lifes and landscapes that seemed to pulse with energy. Deeply influenced by Rembrandt and Van Gogh, Soutine's work captured a raw, almost spiritual intensity that set him apart from his contemporaries. Though he lived much of his life in poverty and obscurity, his art later became highly influential, particularly for postwar expressionists who admired his visceral technique and uncompromising emotional depth.