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De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-born American "abstract realist"〔De Hirsh Margules Dies at 65; A Greenwich Village Notable - "Painter, Poet and Reporter Was the 'Man Who Knew Everone'" in Area", ''New York Times'', (1965, February 4)〕 painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "()idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country".〔Elaine de Kooning, "Margules Paints a Picture", ''Art News'', vol. 50, no. 8, December 1951, p. 45〕''New York Times'' critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium"" 〔Devree, Howard, "A Reviewer's Notebook, Brief Comment on Some Recently Opened Exhibitions in New York Galleries", ''New York Times'' (1939, November 5)〕 Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.〔 The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities"〔"Margules, 'Village' Artist-Poet, Left $100,000" (1965, February 16) ''New York Times''.〕 and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village."〔 ==Early life== De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City.〔Elaine de Kooning, "Margules Paints a Picture", ''Art News'', vol. 50, no. 8, December 1951, p. 55〕 Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." 〔Margules, De Hirsh, King, Alexander and Dunsterville, Hillary, "Time Painting", Artist Gallery, 1961, Dunsterville Forward (unnumbered page)〕〔http://collections-static-5.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=24UAYWRKF94VH〕 Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville.〔 Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the (Adler Family ) and Bertha Kalich, his sister, (Annette Margules ), somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad (Tondelayo ) (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo.〔Norman, Charles, "Poets & People", Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972, page 36〕 (Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Art Classics: Dancing into the Drama )〕) His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." 〔〔"Samuel Margules Dead at 66; Magician Known as Rami-Sami", ''New York Times'', (1962, August 29)〕 Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Magician's biographies )〕). A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found (here ). At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club.〔 By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers.〔〔Elaine de Kooning, "Margules Paints a Picture", ''Art News'', vol. 50, no. 8, December 1951, p. 46〕 As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope .〔King, Alexander, ''Mine Enemy Grows Older'', New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958, pp 229-237.〕 Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later.〔King, Alexander, ''Mine Enemy Grows Older'', New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958, pp 236-237.〕 In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington.〔Elaine de Kooning, "Margules Paints a Picture", ''Art News'', vol. 50, no. 8, December 1951, page 45, 55.〕 Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store.〔〔Elaine de Kooning, "Margules Paints a Picture", ''Art News'', vol. 50, no. 8, December 1951, page 55.〕 He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of (Benjamin Benno )).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「De Hirsh Margules」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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