Orchestra

Emmanuel Mané-Katz

1944–1954

Abstract painting of musicians performing, with bearded man in hat and jacket sitting in center playing a large drum, man to the left standing in hat and jacket and playing double bass, man to the right seated and playing tuba, and other musicians in the background.
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Creator Bio

Emmanuel Mané-Katz

1894–1962

The painter Emmanuel Mané-Katz was born Mane Leyzerovich Kats in Kremenchug, Ukraine, and as a child was destined for the rabbinate. At the age of seventeen, however, he left home to study art in Vilna and then Kiev and, in 1913, went to Paris. He was in Russia during World War I but returned in 1921 to Paris, where he befriended Pablo Picasso and other important artists, and was affiliated with the art movement known as the École de Paris. In 1931, his painting The Wailing Wall was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World’s Fair. During World War II, Mané-Katz lived in the United States but made Paris his home. Like Marc Chagall, he favored overtly Jewish themes drawn from his childhood in Eastern Europe.

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