Word: ganso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emil Ganso was once a baker in Germany. Last week he had left bread far behind. His pictures hung in a dozen exhibitions,* and the Print Club of Cleveland picked his wood engraving At the Seashore by an overwhelming vote to print, mount and send to its wealthy, art-loving members as its 1932 publication...
...Emil Ganso has been called the artistic heir† of Jules Pascin (pronounced Pass-kin, born Pincas, first name unremembered, in Bulgaria of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother) who slit his wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated...
When he bowls he delivers the ball from a strange squatting position. When Manhattan Art Dealer Erhard Weyhe gave the little, round, friendly baker his first exhibition, loaves of bread were conspicuously scattered around the gallery. But Baker Ganso had never thought of himself as a baker. From boyhood he had been fixed on art, had baked for a living. When in 1912 he arrived in the U. S. he kept up both baking and art. In 1926 he began to be noticed. His etchings, lithographs and aquatints were better than his water-colors and oils but he kept...
...attempt has been made to show the more modern work of a group of interesting young American painters. Because of the present tendency toward individualism in American art circles, widely differing treatment of subject matter may be found in this exhibit. It takes one from the realism of Ganso's "Still Life with Peaches", to the abstraction of Stuart Davis' brilliantly colored "Drying Sails...