Visiting the Musée Regards de Provence last week, I saw this painting by Edouard Cremieux, and wanted to remember him as we approach World Holocaust Memorial Day. This painter was born in Marseille on January 21st 1856 (today’s date as chance would have it) and died in May 1944 in Auschwitz.
I don’t know much about him other than he trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Marseille and painted locally winning prizes for his work. He married Edith, also Jewish, in 1894, and the couple had three sons (one died young).
The family were taken away, deported on Convoy 72, on April 29th, 1944, and by May, the couple were dead. Edouard was 88 years old. The two sons survived: Albert returned to Marseille and was an eminent doctor.
Edouard Cremieux’s paintings are full of the joy of Marseille life and the beauty of the coast. The picture above can be seen in the retrospective described here: https://aixcentric.com/2019/01/19/retrospective-at-the-musee-regards-de-provence/
And here are some other works by this artist who deserves to be remembered:
La corniche à Marseille Musée de la castre. Cannes
Les Poissonieres is in the Musée d’Histoire, Marseille
Other paintings are in the museums at Cassis and Gap. It would be wonderful to see them all in an exhibition some time?
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