Claire Bertrand
Illustration — Claire Bertrand, painting by her daughter Evelyn Marc Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz, also known as Claire Bertrand, was a French expressionist artist born in Sèvres (now in the Hauts-de-Seine) on 22 June 1890. She died on 8 December 1969. She was the wife of the painter Willy Eisenschitz, also a French painter and draftsman.
Also recorded as Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz
Claire Bertrand

Evelyn Marc · Photography from personal collection by Délie Duparc · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- 1890 · Sèvres.
- Died
- 1969
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Movements
- Expressionism
- Education
- Académie Julian
- Teachers
- Émile-René Ménard
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Claire Bertrand, painting by her daughter Evelyn Marc Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz, also known as Claire Bertrand, was a French expressionist artist born in Sèvres (now in the Hauts-de-Seine) on 22 June 1890. She died on 8 December 1969. She was the wife of the painter Willy Eisenschitz, also a French painter and draftsman.
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She mainly exhibited her works in Paris and in the south of france.
Born in 1890 in Sèvres (Seine-et-Oise, now in the Hauts-de-Seine), Claire Bertrand is the daughter of Marcel Bertrand geologist and Mathilde Mascart, a talented pianist; she is the granddaughter of the mathematician Joseph Bertrand. Claire Bertrand in Paris entered the Académie Julian and the Great chaumière where she attended the studio of René Ménard and Lucien simon. Her she met fellow student, painter Willy Eisenschitz; they married in 1913. Arrested in 1914 as an Austrian subject, her husband was detained in an internment camp during the beginning of the First World War. Claire Bertrand sharing his captivity. Evelyne his daughter and his son David were born in the camp. After the war, Claire Bertrand did exhibitions in 1921 and 1922 in the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts. She also exhibited at the Salon of independent artists from 1922 to 1930, and the Salon d'Automne in 1922 to 1938.
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Exhibitions
• Société nationale des Beaux-arts, 1921 et 1922. • Salon des artistes indépendants, de 1922 à 1930. • Salon d'automne, de 1922 à 1938. • Billiet, plusieurs expositions entre 1927 et 1937. • Salon des Tuileries, de 1928 à 1943. • Les vingt-deux, groupe féminin (Edith Auerbach, Claire Bertrand, Chériane, Rolande Dechorain, Adrienne Jouclard...) - Peintures, sculptures, photographies, Galerie Bonaparte, Paris, 1937. • Diverses expositions locales en Provence. • Une famille de peintres, galerie Allard, 1949: Claire Bertrand, Willy Eisenschitz, et leur fille Evelyn Marc. • Claire Bertrand, exposition rétrospective, galerie Bruno-Bassano, 1974.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the heading Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz. Her recorded language was French. She was the child of Marcel Bertrand and Mathilde Mascart. She married Willy Eisenschitz. 2 children are recorded: Evelyn Marc and David Eisenschitz.
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1890
Claire Bertrand born at Sèvres.
1969
Claire Bertrand died.
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- 1.Archives des Hauts-de-Seine, acte de naissance n°91 dressé le 25/6/1890 à Sèvres, vue 34/63
- 2.Archives des Hauts-de-Seine, acte de naissance n°91 dressé le 25/6/1890 à Sèvres, vue 34/63.
- 3.Harvsp Bénézit 1999 p=229 .
- 4.Harvsp Schurr Cabanne 2008 p=83 .
- 5.Harvsp Bénézit 1999 p=230 .
- 6.Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Gründ. 1999.
- 7.Claire Bertrand. Imprimerie Bayle. 2016. 978-2-9534644-1-2.
- 8.La Revue moderne des arts et de la vie, 1974, 22.
- 9.Exposition Une histoire de famille. Dieulefit-Bourdeaux Tourisme.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Gründ. 1999.
- V.A. Sircoulomb, C. Burgard, H. Moulin, P. Soleil, Les artistes réfugiés à Dieulefit pendant la seconde guerre mondiale : Claire Bertrand, Willy Eisenschitz, Pierre Guastalla, Robert Lapoujade, Étienne-Martin, Wols, Valence, Musée de Valence, 1991.
- « Willy Eisenschitz et Claire Bertrand », dans les Cahiers du sud, 1966.
- L. Altieri : « Willy Eisenschitz et Claire Bertrand », dans Var-Matin, 1978.
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Claire Bertrand studied at Académie Julian. She trained under Émile-René Ménard. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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