Background
Louis Marcoussis was born as Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markous in Warsaw, Poland on November 14, 1878. He was the son of Gerszon Markous, who was a cultured industrialist living in Warsaw.
He studies initially at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.
Louis Marcoussis was born as Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markous in Warsaw, Poland on November 14, 1878. He was the son of Gerszon Markous, who was a cultured industrialist living in Warsaw.
Louis studies initially at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. From 1903, however, he spends most of his life in Paris, where he continues his studies as a student of Jean Lefebvre.
Starting from Cubism, he first gradually pulls away from the influence of Picasso and his circle and develops a strictly geometric style that has left the representational behind. The high points of his graphic work include the illustrations for Tristan Tzara's "Indicateur des chemins de cœur".
Louis Marcoussis' works are exhibited from around 1910 onward in major Parisian art institutions, such as the "Salon des Indépendants" from 1912 on, in whose retrospective exhibition he is also represented with six works in 1926.
In the same year, his graphic work can be seen in the group exhibition in the "Section d'Or". From 1923, he is also a regular participant in the Salon des Tuileries.
Further exhibitions in Paris follow: in 1926 in the Galerie Pierre, in 1929 at G. Bernheim and in 1931 in the Galerie Jeanne Bucher. He repeatedly travels through Western Europe and Tangiers/North Africa, and visits the USA in 1933.
Individual retrospectives after his death in 1941 are accompanied by the acquisition of his works by famous museums such as the Tate Gallery, London, the Art Institute Chicago and the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
Hyères I
Kerity Landscape
Still LIfe
Violin, Bottle Flowers in a Glass and Eight of Spades
The Cardplayer
Poire verte et couteau
Jug and Card
Composition cubiste au portrait, poisson et clair de lune
Still LIfe with Pomegranates and Knife on a Pedistal
Nature morte cubiste
Two Poets
Musician in an Interior
Composition au coquillage
Still LIfe with Window
Still LIfe in front of the Window
Still LIfe in front of the Balcony
Still LIfe with Ace of Spades
La Cithare
The Open Door
Lulli
Breton Bread, Two Fish, Spoon
Interior with Balcony
Still LIfe with Big Bear
The Large Fly
Figures and Marine Anchor
Concert
Untitled Still Life
Bees
Still LIfe with Envelope
Un Reve (A Dream)
Still Life
Planches de Salut
Composition au visage et au coquillage
A Cello
Nature morte
Nimes
Guitar and Pomegranates by a Window
Rain
Still Life
A Slice of Watermelon
Nuit II (Composition with Frog)
The Window overlooking the Eiffel Tower
Figures on a Beach
Portret van Albert Flechteim
La Table
The Red Fish
Glass and Violin
La Table
Couple
Viareggio (La depeche de Toulouse)
Still LIfe with Fish
Still Life with Ephemeris
In 1913 Louis had married Alice Halicka, a painter who came from Kraków. Their daughter Malène was born in 1922.