Mela Muter actually became known and renowned for her highly expressive portraits. Born into a wealthy Jewish-Polish family engaged in the retail business, she quickly found her footing in Parisian society at the start of the 20th century and became friends with important avant-garde artists. She had studied in Warsaw as well as the Grande Chaumière and Colarossi academies in Paris. Shortly thereafter, she was creating portraits of public figures: from the art market, literary world, politics and upper-class circles.
At the same time, however, she had an exceptionally empathetic interest in poorer members of the populace. With psychological curiosity, but never lacking distance, society’s disadvantaged are depicted in sometimes prominently proportioned formats: children attired in a meagre and impoverished manner as well as street musicians or families in a domestic atmosphere.
Our large-format painting depicts a young woman having a meal with her children. The room is filled with light, and a mild breeze gently passes through the open window to stir the curtains. The view of mountains and a river anchors the domestic scene in a rural natural setting and also points to Mela
Mela Muter Research Center
Rada Programowa Mela Muter Research Center
- dr Ewa Bobrowska – historyczka sztuki, monografistka artystki, specjalistka w zakresie sztuki polskiej za granicą
- dr Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik – historyczka sztuki, ekspertka w zakresie kolekcjonerstwa
- Karolina Prewęcka - pisarka, autorka książki biograficznej o artystce
- Anna Wachta – dziennikarka, mecenaska i kolekcjonerka sztuki
- Krzysztof Wejman – kolekcjoner, założyciel fundacji Art & Modern
Badania i publikacje
Mela Muter Research Centre od roku bada i opracowuje twórczość Meli Muter w celu przygotowania pierwszej kompleksowej monografii tej artystki, a także opracowań dotyczących jej relacji z innymi artystami. Główną badaczką w tym zakresie jest dr Ewa Bobrowska.
Projekt zakłada wydanie następujących publikacji jej autorstwa:
- Monografia Meli Muter - w języku polskim (termin wydania: ), francuskim () i angielskim ().
- Opracowanie z komentarzem korespondencji pomiędzy Melą Muter a jej ukochanym, francuskim działaczem socjalistycznym,
Mela Muter
Mela Muter była kobietą o wyjątkowej osobowości, wybitną malarką, znakomitą pejzażystką, wziętą portrecistką intelektualnych i artystycznych elit Paryża «szalonych lat». Przed jej sztalugami zasiadały najciekawsze osobistości tamtego okresu, zarówno z kręgów lewicujących, jak i arystokratycznych. Malowała swoją rodzinę, przyjaciół, kolegów artystów, literatów, kilku laureatów literackiej Nagrody Nobla (Władysława Reymonta, Henryka Sienkiewicza, Romaina Rollanda), muzyków, naukowców, polityków i działaczy, dyplomatów, marszandów, a także nieznanych z nazwiska starców, kobiety, dzieci.
Jej życie osobiste to barwne, ale jednocześnie tragiczne losy wyemancypowanej kobiety, która godziła ambicje zawodowe z obowiązkami córki, siostry, matki, żony, partnerki, czy przyjaciółki wybitnych postaci: dziennikarza i krytyka literackiego, działacza lewicowego, Michała Mutermilcha ( – ), poetów: Leopolda Staffa i Rainera Marii Rilkego, historyka i krytyka sztuki Rogera Fry’a, a&n
Mela Muter – Accomplished Portraitist and Devoted Mother
Although in her day she was most famous for portraying the members of the Parisian Boheme, Mela Muter was deeply fascinated with capturing the intimacy permeating the daily lives of mothers. In fact, motherhood became the most recurring theme in her original oeuvre which shows influences ranging from Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, and Cubism.
Muter’s Stormy Biography
Behind these elegant, yet expressive paintings, hides an extremely stormy biography of a woman who, through her entire work, was inspired by a fascination with other people.
Katarzyna Wąs, Mela Muter Portrecistka Exhibition Curator, Warsaw
Why a “stormy” biography? Probably because Mela Muter was born a Polish Jew at the end of the 19th century. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, at the age of 23 she began studying art in a drawing school for women in Warsaw. Yet, having met her future husband Michał Mutermilch (–), a Jewish-Polish writer, critic, and socialist activist, she left for Paris with her family (by then, their only child, Andrzej, was one year old). In France, Muter returned to studying painting and she attended the Académie de l
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