In this section there are texts about Marcelle Cahn written by people who knew her personally.
These tributes shed light on the artist’s life.
There are also texts written by people who discovered and appreciated Marcelle Cahn’s works of art.
Tribute When I met her in 1976 she was already 81 years old. At that time she seemed so young and full of enthusiasm that I was barely surprised by the fact that she was still working. Today I find it unbelievable. It was Gottfried Honegger, a Swiss artist living in Paris, who took me […]
I was 20 years old and in Paris. My first job was with the magazine Opus International. I had to write small pieces about exhibitions. I remember that I had no money, either for metro tickets or for stamps, so I walked all the way to Sain-Germain from my room located in the 14th district. […]
The Museum of Fine Arts of Mulhouse proposed a look at the “Themes and Variations” of Marcelle Cahn in 1986 at the Seventh Biennial Printmaking Exhibition in Mulhouse. It is within this context that Serge Lemoine, at that time professor of art history at the University of Dijon, “willingly wrote a text about Marcelle Cahn” […]
The CAMC would like to thank Gottfried Honegger for his kind permission to publish his texts on this site. A Tribute to Marcelle Cahn You were born in 1895 in Strasbourg.You left us in 1981.And so your work is a witness to the art of our century.You lived and participated in these changes.You are actor […]
Lluïsa Faxedas Brujats is a professor of Art History at the University of Girona in Spain It was when I first started to be interested in the very beginnings of abstract painting that I discovered Marcelle Cahn and the other women artists who participated in this period. I was amazed at the large number of […]
The reality was : a clean up… Then a long time afterwards, we found a fairy tale…better yet, a true story ! When I was a child, I was attracted to drawing and art. My parents regularly did different odd jobs in Paris at the home of Mme Langevin, whose maiden name was Madeleine Weil. […]