Abraham Neumann (1873 Sierpc - 1942 Krakow ) was a painter and graphic artist. In 1891 he came to Warsaw and studied at the Drawing School, making a living by painting portraits. In 1897, he began studies at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow under Jacek Malczewski. In 1900 he went to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian. He visited the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Germany.

After returning to Krakow in 1901-1902, he continued his studies at the Academy under Leon Wyczólkowski and Jan Stanislawski. After graduation, he moved to Krakow, from where he went to the open air in the Tatra Mountains. Later, he also lived in Zakopane, Nowy Targ and Warsaw. During World War I, he was in Vienna.

Around 1918 he went to the United States for three years. He also traveled around France, spent several years in Brittany, was in England, the Netherlands, Belgium, visited Berlin, Vienna, Munich, and went to Palestine.

In the years 1925-1927, he lectured at the "Bazalel" School of Fine Arts in Jerusalem. He has presented his paintings at many exhibitions, including in Kraków, Warsaw, Lódz, Drohobycz and Lviv. He also exhibited abroad - in Paris, Vienna and many times in Germany.

He mainly painted landscapes from the vicinity of Krakow, the Tatra Mountains and Zakopane, from Kazimierz, Warsaw, from his travels around France (Brittany) and from Palestine. After 1911, he also painted architecture, still lifes and interiors, and in the 1920s, portraits and figural compositions. He also dealt with graphics.

From 1941 he was in the Krakow ghetto, and he died during his evacuation.

The Polish painter Abraham Neumann who was born in 1973 in the former Russian Sierpc studied around the turn of the century at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Later he went to a study stay to the Académie Julian in Paris. Neumann traveled a lot in his life: He visited the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Germany, stayed in Vienna for some time and traveled to the US and around Palestine in the 1920s. In Jerusalem, he taught at the Academy of Art and Design in Bezalel.

The artist primarily painted landscapes but portraits and genre scenes, interiors and still lifes belong to his oeuvre as well. During the era of national socialism Neumann was detained in the Krakow Ghetto where he created (self) portraits. In 1942, the artist was shot dead during the evacuating of the ghetto by German National Socialist. (msc)