1914 Sabre Duel Kisling vs Gottlieb

1914. Silent. Paris. Duel between Kisling & Gottlieb. Gottlieb is on the right. The duel between the two painters Moïse Kisling and Léopold Gottlieb at the Parc des Princes was a sabre duel that lasted an hour. It ended when a counter-cut (backhand cut) from Gottlieb lightly slit Kisling’s nose. Léopold Gottlieb was born in Drohobycz, Poland in 1883 and was a Polish-Jewish modernist painter. From 1896-1902, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. In 1903, he continued his studies in Munich, where he earned his living painting portraits. In 1906, he taught painting at the School of Fine Arts of Bezalel in Jerusalem; then he returned to Paris with his young wife who was a medical student. Beginning in 1904, Gottlieb exhibited in Paris at the Salon d’Automne between 1904 and 1928, the Salon Société Nationale de Beaux-Arts 1911-12, at the Salon des Tuilleries, and the Salon d’Indépendants. During his stay in Paris, he was asscosciated