About the Artists Database

The NIVAL Artists Database has been compiled in order to improve public access to the Library's extensive information files on 20th century and contemporary Irish artists.  These files contain exhibition catalogues, newspaper cuttings and ephemera on over 3,500 artists born or based in Ireland.

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  • Reference Code:IE/NIVAL AR/4142
  • Gender: Male
  • Date of Birth: 1892
  • Date of Death: 1980
  • Place of Birth: Nijni-Novgorod, Russia.
  • Nationality: Not Specified
  • Area Of Practice:
    • Painting
    • Theatre Design
    • Costume Design
  • Artwork Type Technique:
    • Painting
  • Public Art: No
  • Manuscript Material: No

Bibliography

Born at Nijni-Novgorod in Russia. Left Russia in 1920 and spent two years in Florence and one in Berlin, where he designed sets and costumes for the Ballets Romantiques Russes. Settled in Paris 1923. First one-man exhibition at the Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, 1926. Painted in representational styles for many years: faces of restless, dreamy youths, pictures of harlequins, vagabonds and gypsies. Became a French citizen in 1938. Took refuge at Villefranche-sur-Mer and a village in the Is-24re 1940-5, then returned to Paris. Designed sets and costumes for the ballet Concerto for the Op-23ra-Comique 1947. Gradually developed towards abstraction, his paintings becoming completely non-figurative in 1947. Also active since 1950 in the field of religious art: made crucifixes and other sculptures for various churches, and designed stained glass for the chapel of Notre Dame des Pauvres at Issy-les-Moulineaux (Seine) and elsewhere.

Education

(dates unknown) Zach attended the Faculty of Arts at Moscow University.

Notes

The information on this artist is derived from the gallery file on the Dawson Gallery. No additional information on this artist is available in NIVAL.