Hermine Lionette Cartan David (19 April 1886 in

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– 1 December 1970 in

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) was a French

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Early life and education

Hermine David was born in Paris in 1886. She was born out of wedlock; her mother insisted that her biological father was a Habsburg archduke.

Career

She became one of the

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artists, a group of mostly non-French artists, émigrés particularly from eastern Europe who were working in Paris before

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was another member of that artistic group, whom she met in 1907. By that time, she was already well-established as a successful young painter,

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and printmaker. She followed Pascin to the

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in 1915, where they were married on 25 September 1918. They stayed a total of five years, past the end of

. David exhibited in

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during her residence there. In 1920, after they returned to France, she exhibited in London and in several solo shows at prominent Paris galleries. While her finest work dates to the 1920s and '30s, including the book illustrations for which she developed a passion in the '20s, she was active into the 1960s. She won a

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prize at the ''Biennale de Deauville'' in 1965. Her work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the

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. She outlived her husband by forty years after he committed suicide in 1930. She died in 1970 at Bry-sur-Marne. Her work is included in the collection of the

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References

External links

Hermine David website
(Archives Hermine David). {{DEFAULTSORT:David, Hermine 1886 births 1970 deaths French women painters French artists' models Académie Julian alumni Painters from Paris 20th-century French painters 20th-century French women artists 19th-century French women artists Olympic competitors in art competitions