Kisling was one of the first representatives of the Parisian school, which formed the artists of Jewish origin - immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia. His many secular friends and significant financial success led to his being nicknamed the "Prince of Montparnasse". For his part in the First World War (he fought in the Foreign Legion) Kisling received French citizenship.
Apogee glory of this artist to the period from 1917 to 1940. His exhibitions were held in numerous galleries in Paris - Dryue (1919), Guillaume (1924), Bernheim (1924), Carmine (1927), Girard (1924), Stein (1924), as well as in Europe and the United States. In 1940, fleeing from the Gestapo, he fled to Spain and from there - in Portugal and, finally, in the United States, where he settled in 1941 and stayed until the end of the war. In 1945 he returned to France.
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