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{{Short description|Latvian-born French Jewish painter (1887–1972)}}
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'''Jacques (Ya'akov) Chapiro''' (1887–1972) was a painter of the [[School of Paris]]. Chapiro was born in [[Dinaburg]], [[Russian Empire]] (now [[Daugavpils]], [[Latvia]]) and died in [[Paris]] in 1972.

==Biography==
The son of a wood sculptor, he began his artistic education at the early age of ten. In 1915, at the age of 18 he moved to Poland to attend the Kraków academy of fine art and in 1918 he moved to [[Ukraine]] to study at the Academy of Fine Arts of Kiev. Chapiro was Jewish.

During the [[Russian Civil War]], while pursuing his studies, he contributed to the revolution efforts by painting posters. In 1921, he studied art in [[Petrograd]], and during this period he worked as a decorator in the [[Vsevolod Meyerhold|Meyerhold Theater]]. He worked for [[Constantin Stanislavski|Stanislavski]] and [[Yevgeny Vakhtangov|Vakhtangov]], both notorious in the field of theater.

In 1925, he left Russia in favor of Paris, and settled down in [[Montparnasse]]. As of 1926, he exhibited his works at the [[Société des Artistes Indépendants|Salon des Indépendants]], the [[Salon des Tuileries]] among other places. In 1939, he became a refugee, escaping to [[Carpentras]] and later on to [[Hautes-Alpes]]. When the war ended he traveled to Italy, before returning to Paris. When he did return to Paris he set down to write his book of anecdotal stories taken from the life of the artists from [[La Ruche (residence)|La Ruche]]. In the thirties, he painted several portraits, whose expressiveness and iconography preceded those of the portraits of Francis Bacon. Some art historians have repeatedly talked about a strong link between the painting of Van Gogh, Soutine, Chapiro and Bacon.
He opposed the demolition of [[La Ruche (residence)|La Ruche]] in 1967 and founded, along with [[Marc Chagall]] and [[Raymond Cogniat]], a committee that fought against this move. The committee succeeded in its cause. Chapiro's works can be found in museums in the United States (Chicago), Russia (Moscow) and France (Jeu de Paume, Paris). As to his artistic style, it seems that Chapiro was fond of experiments. His many paintings are much different from one another; some are classified as [[Cubistic]] in style, some as [[Impressionist]] and others as [[Fauvist]]. Throughout his artistic career, Chapiro kept sketching in his unique signature, with a light and talented hand. It is in his realistic sketching, which are somewhat casual, that one can be truly impressed by his talent.

==References==
* [[:fr:Peintres juifs-russes de l'École de Paris#Peintres|Juifs-Russes de l'École de Paris]]

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110726013219/http://ecole-de-paris.org/artists-biographies/jacques-chapiro-1887-1972.html Jacques Chapiro in the site of ''Gallery97 Tel Aviv''] {{in lang|en}}

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