Statuetele de Tanagra şi operele sculptorului basarabean Moissey Kogan
Tanagra figurines and works of the Bessarabian sculptor Moissey Kogan

Summary/Abstract: Moissey Kogan was born at 24 of May 1879 in Orhei (Bessarabia) and died at 3 of March 1943 in the Auschwitz con Moissey Kogan was born on May 24, 1879 in Orhei (Bessarabia) and died on March 3, 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1903, he entered the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (Munich), worked in the studio of the sculptor Wilhelm von Rümann and participated in exhibitions with works of art made of bronze and ceramics. His works were exhibited in the museums and galleries in Munich, Bremen, Essen and Hale. In 1910 he moved to France, where being supported by A. Rodin and A. Maillol participates in Paris exhibitions. His reliefs adorned the «Factory Exhibition», designed by Walter Gropius for Collogne (1914). At present, M. Kogan’s works are found in museums and galleries around the world – in Hagen, Cologne, Paris, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Munich etc. His sculptures bear the features of the neoclassical style with different variations of ancient and archaic forms. They render an original and unexpected approach in the European art of the XX century.

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