| Charles Cobelle was born in Alsace - Lorraine France in 1902, Charles Cobelle (born Carl Edelman) lived and painted in Paris until the late 1920s when he moved to the United States.
Cobelle took his Bachelor's and his Master's degrees from the University of Munich and later studied at the LEcole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He also studied privately with Marc Chagall and apprenticed in the studio of Raul Dufy in Menton on the Riviera.
In the time before he moved to the United States, Cobelle had established himself as an artistic force in Europe and today is considered the last link to the great tradition of the Open Line School of Paris.
Cobelle had already become a U.S. citizen before the outbreak of World War II. In the United States his paintings were immediately sought after by galleries and private collectors alike. Throughout his long and prosperous career, Cobelle painted his favorite subjects; Paris street scenes, racetracks, regattas and casinos.
In addition to his mixed media paintings his work has graced the covers of many of this country's leading magazines and his murals have adorned the walls of many elegant residences, public buildings, fine hotels and restaurants..A modern French master of painting, lithography, Charles Cobelle studied first at the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris. Much more influential in his development, however, were his private studies with Marc Chagall and his apprenticeship in the studio of Raul Dufy in Menton on the Riviera. When Cobelle emigrated to the United States in the late 1920s he had already established himself within the great tradition of the School of Paris.
During the following decades Cobelles lithographs and paintings of street scenes, racetracks, regattas and casinos earned him in international reputation and many awards and honors. His views of both Paris and New York, in particular, were eagerly sought after by major French and American publishers. |
