Background
He was born in Zgierz, Poland on May 9, 1892 and died in Paris, France on December 28, 1958.
He was born in Zgierz, Poland on May 9, 1892 and died in Paris, France on December 28, 1958.
From 1910 to 1914, Szwarc lived and studied art at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
He boarded at la Ruche together with Soutine, Marc Chagall, and Kremegne, and together with Tchaikov and Lichtenstein inaugurated the first Jewish art journal Makhmadim (Precious Ones). In 1913 he exhibited his first sculpture, Eve, in the Salon d"Automne. During the First World War Szwarc returned to Poland.
Until the Second World War, Szwarc lived in Paris and his paintings and sculptures were bought by collectors in Germany, Poland, the United States, and by several museums.
lieutenant was during this period between the wars that he produced some of his most outstanding and original work in hammered copper, exhibited in the Salon des Tuileries and the subject of a monograph by Louis Vauxcelles. When Poland fell in 1939, Szwarc volunteered for the Polish army in exile and after the occupation of France he escaped with the Polish army to Scotland, while his family fled via Lisbon to England.
lieutenant was during this period (1940–1943) that he drew a series of pen and ink drawings depicting the daily life of his fellow soldiers. She published two books dealing in large part with the life of her father.
After the war Marek Szwarc devoted most of his time to sculpting in stone and wood and casting in bronze.
Some of these works have been donated to the Musee d"art et d"Histoire du Judaisme in Paris. Other works from this period can still be seen in his atelier in Paris. Marek Szwarc died suddenly at the age of 66.