Georges Kars (Prague, 1880 – Geneva, 1945) belongs to that generation of artists from Central Europe who made Paris one of the main centres of artistic modernity. Trained in Munich before settling permanently in France in 1919, he developed an original body of work in which the legacy of Expressionism and Cubism gradually gives way to a deeply personal figuration, founded on the solidity of constructions and the fullness of forms.
Surrounded by Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Berthe Weill, Paul Poiret, Jules Pascin, Juan Gris, Suzanne Valadon or Chana Orloff, he took a full part in the artistic life of the interwar years. Yet his work gradually fell into oblivion after his suicide in Geneva in 1945.
Bringing together exceptional loans from the largest Czech institutions, this exhibition traces his career, highlights the links between the artistic scenes of Prague and Paris, and restores to Georges Kars the place he occupies in the history of 20th-century art.