Moshe Cohen was born in the Bessarabian town of Orhei (now the regional center Orhei region of Moldova) in a religious Jewish family. He studied in cheder, after which the family moved to Kishinev, where he graduated from high school. Since 1897, Cohen studied chemistry at the Odessa, a in 1903 along with his older brother followed in Munich, where he entered the rather large community of primarily Russian artists headed by V. V. Kandinsky and A. G. Jawlensky.
In Munich Kogan together with his brother he entered the Academy of fine arts, studied medal art, pottery, wood carving and stone; he earned his living with designs for embroideries and fabrics. The first three bronze relief Kogan has been exhibited at joint exhibitions in Berlin and Munich secession at the salon d'automne of 1908 and attracted the favorable attention of Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol, E. R. Adolf von Hildebrand and the critic Julius Meier-Graefe. During these years, Kogan was particularly friendly with the dancer Alexander Sakharov (Zuckerman, 1886-1963), who in 1905 on the advice of Kogan moved from Paris to Munich for the fine arts.
After the Berlin secession in spring 1909, where he was exposed to nine plaquettes Kogan, on the recommendation of the theater critic Hans Brandenburg, the German patron Karl Ernst Ostkhaus took Kogan under his wing. In the same 1909 Kogan became a member of the "New Association of artists" (Neue Künstlervereinigung München) organized by Kandinsky, in 1911 — Association "Blue rider". In addition to Kogan in these associations was attended by M. V. Verevkin, V. G. Bekhteev (1878-1971), A. G. Jawlensky and others.
At the same time in 1909 and in 1911 Kogan took part in the First and Second salons of V. A. Izdebsky (1882-1965), while he taught at the Hamburg school of arts and crafts, then at the urging of his cartridge Ostkhaus settled in Hagen, where Ostkhaus planned at his own expense to open for Kogan shop. However, these plans were never realized and in 1910, Kogan moved to Paris (for the patronage of the Ostkhaus, however, lasted until 1915).
In Paris, Cohen rented a Studio in the famous "hive" — the house №2 in the Danzig alley where there were more than 140 art Studio, including Marc Chagall, Fernand Leger, Henri Laurent, Alexander Archipenko, Amedeo Modigliani, Jacques Lipchitz and Chaim Soutine. Mainly engaged in sculpture naked female natures and torsos of wood and terracotta, bronze figurines, as well as woodcuts and linoleum, lithography.
In 1913 and 1914, passed the first personal exhibition of Kogan in the Munich Galerie Goltz, he took part in the annual Paris salon, and in group exhibitions in Munich, Weimar, Cologne, Dortmund, Dresden, the Berlin secession (1909, 1911, 1912, 1926). In 1914, Cohen was decorated with reliefs of the walls of the building of the German industrial exposition, and in 1915 he was in Switzerland. During these years he has developed and refined his own method of negative sculpture, beginning sculpture manufacturer with the form.
A group of artists Das Junges Rheinland in Cologne Domgalerie in the winter of 1928. Moses Cohen is second from right in the second row (with glasses). From left to right — first row: Otto Dix, the düsseldorf sculptor Jupp Corporate; third row: Dr. Herbert Eulenburg, Arno Breker; fourth row: Dr. Karl Schwesig, the Berlin critic Alfred Flechtheim, unknown, Artur Kaufmann.
In 1922, the Berlin gallery of Alfred Flechtheim (Galerie Alfred Flechtheim) has published a series of engravings Kogan on the tree, representing the twelve illustrations to the poem of his friend, writer and art critic Carl Witt "ISO" (Karl With, "it is a jizo") in a bibliophile edition with ogranichennym edition. In 1925, Kogan was elected Vice-President of the Autumn salon in Paris in sculpture. In 1928, the work of Kogan was shown in the Russian Department of the exhibition "Contemporary art of Europe" in Hamburg.
In the 1920-ies Kogan was a mentor of the sculptor Arno Breker, who executed his sculptural and graphic portraits, and also introduced Kogan at the Cologne group "Das Junges Rheinland".
In 1930-e years he taught at the New school of the arts Paul Citroen (1896-1983) in Amsterdam.
Sculpture of Moses Kogan
In February 1942, Kogan was captured by the Vichy and transported to the Drancy camp, and on March 3 of that year, immediately upon his arrival put to death in the gas chamber of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The first posthumous exhibition of the works of Moses Kogan, organized by the famous art critic John Random (Rewald, John, 1912-1994), was held in 1955 at the Paris Galerie Zak 16, Rue de lAbbaye; since then, held several other personal exhibitions, including in 1964 in düsseldorf (organized by the art critic and writer Carl Witt, 1891-1980) and — on the centenary of the sculptor — in 1979 in the Netherlands.
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Russia and Germany
Moshe Cohen was born in the Bessarabian town of Orhei (now the regional center Orhei region of Moldova) in a religious Jewish family. He studied in cheder, after which the family moved to Kishinev, where he graduated from high school. Since 1897, Cohen studied chemistry at the Odessa, a in 1903 along with his older brother followed in Munich, where he entered the rather large community of primarily Russian artists headed by V. V. Kandinsky and A. G. Jawlensky.
In Munich Kogan together with his brother he entered the Academy of fine arts, studied medal art, pottery, wood carving and stone; he earned his living with designs for embroideries and fabrics. The first three bronze relief Kogan has been exhibited at joint exhibitions in Berlin and Munich secession at the salon d'automne of 1908 and attracted the favorable attention of Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol, E. R. Adolf von Hildebrand and the critic Julius Meier-Graefe. During these years, Kogan was particularly friendly with the dancer Alexander Sakharov (Zuckerman, 1886-1963), who in 1905 on the advice of Kogan moved from Paris to Munich for the fine arts.
After the Berlin secession in spring 1909, where he was exposed to nine plaquettes Kogan, on the recommendation of the theater critic Hans Brandenburg, the German patron Karl Ernst Ostkhaus took Kogan under his wing. In the same 1909 Kogan became a member of the "New Association of artists" (Neue Künstlervereinigung München) organized by Kandinsky, in 1911 — Association "Blue rider". In addition to Kogan in these associations was attended by M. V. Verevkin, V. G. Bekhteev (1878-1971), A. G. Jawlensky and others.
At the same time in 1909 and in 1911 Kogan took part in the First and Second salons of V. A. Izdebsky (1882-1965), while he taught at the Hamburg school of arts and crafts, then at the urging of his cartridge Ostkhaus settled in Hagen, where Ostkhaus planned at his own expense to open for Kogan shop. However, these plans were never realized and in 1910, Kogan moved to Paris (for the patronage of the Ostkhaus, however, lasted until 1915).
France
In Paris, Cohen rented a Studio in the famous "hive" — the house №2 in the Danzig alley where there were more than 140 art Studio, including Marc Chagall, Fernand Leger, Henri Laurent, Alexander Archipenko, Amedeo Modigliani, Jacques Lipchitz and Chaim Soutine. Mainly engaged in sculpture naked female natures and torsos of wood and terracotta, bronze figurines, as well as woodcuts and linoleum, lithography.
In 1913 and 1914, passed the first personal exhibition of Kogan in the Munich Galerie Goltz, he took part in the annual Paris salon, and in group exhibitions in Munich, Weimar, Cologne, Dortmund, Dresden, the Berlin secession (1909, 1911, 1912, 1926). In 1914, Cohen was decorated with reliefs of the walls of the building of the German industrial exposition, and in 1915 he was in Switzerland. During these years he has developed and refined his own method of negative sculpture, beginning sculpture manufacturer with the form.
In 1922, the Berlin gallery of Alfred Flechtheim (Galerie Alfred Flechtheim) has published a series of engravings Kogan on the tree, representing the twelve illustrations to the poem of his friend, writer and art critic Carl Witt "ISO" (Karl With, "it is a jizo") in a bibliophile edition with ogranichennym edition. In 1925, Kogan was elected Vice-President of the Autumn salon in Paris in sculpture. In 1928, the work of Kogan was shown in the Russian Department of the exhibition "Contemporary art of Europe" in Hamburg.
In the 1920-ies Kogan was a mentor of the sculptor Arno Breker, who executed his sculptural and graphic portraits, and also introduced Kogan at the Cologne group "Das Junges Rheinland".
In 1930-e years he taught at the New school of the arts Paul Citroen (1896-1983) in Amsterdam.
In February 1942, Kogan was captured by the Vichy and transported to the Drancy camp, and on March 3 of that year, immediately upon his arrival put to death in the gas chamber of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The first posthumous exhibition of the works of Moses Kogan, organized by the famous art critic John Random (Rewald, John, 1912-1994), was held in 1955 at the Paris Galerie Zak 16, Rue de l'abbaye; since then, held several other personal exhibitions, including in 1964 in düsseldorf (organized by the art critic and writer Carl Witt, 1891-1980) and — on the centenary of the sculptor — in 1979 in the Netherlands.
Brother of Moses Kogan — Schneier, Gertsevich Kogan (1875-1940) — Bessarabian Romanian artist, founder and Professor of the Chisinau school of painting (later the Higher school of plastic arts).
