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Alfred Aberdam BIOGRAPHY
1894 Lviv - 1963 Paris. Known for: Portrait, figure, allegorical paintings.
Painter associated with École de Paris; he began his studies in 1913-14 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. They were interrupted, however, by the Austrian army. He was wounded in the fighting, he... Read full biography
Painter associated with École de Paris; he began his studies in 1913-14 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. They were interrupted, however, by the Austrian army. He was wounded in the fighting, he was captured by the Russians and he was in the camps in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk. In 1920 he... Read full biography
Painter associated with École de Paris; he began his studies in 1913-14 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. They were interrupted, however, by the Austrian army. He was wounded in the fighting, he was captured by the Russians and he was in the camps in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk. In 1920 he returned to Lviv, and in 1921-22 he began painting studies at the Kraków Academy with T.Axentowicz, and in 1922-23 with A. Archipenka in Berlin. In 1923 he left for Paris, where he remained permanently. He... Read full biography
Painter associated with École de Paris; he began his studies in 1913-14 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. They were interrupted, however, by the Austrian army. He was wounded in the fighting, he was captured by the Russians and he was in the camps in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk. In 1920 he returned to Lviv, and in 1921-22 he began painting studies at the Kraków Academy with T.Axentowicz, and in 1922-23 with A. Archipenka in Berlin. In 1923 he left for Paris, where he remained permanently. He was a co-founder of the Four Group (with Menkes, Weingart, Weissberg). He exhibited at the Paris Autumn Salon, at Galerie Zak and Berheim-Jeune. He has shown his works at exhibitions in Poland many times - in Krakow, Warsaw and Lviv. From 1933 he... Read full biography
Painter associated with École de Paris; he began his studies in 1913-14 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. They were interrupted, however, by the Austrian army. He was wounded in the fighting, he was captured by the Russians and he was in the camps in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk. In 1920 he returned to Lviv, and in 1921-22 he began painting studies at the Kraków Academy with T.Axentowicz, and in 1922-23 with A. Archipenka in Berlin. In 1923 he left for Paris, where he remained permanently. He was a co-founder of the Four Group (with Menkes, Weingart, Weissberg). He exhibited at the Paris Autumn Salon, at Galerie Zak and Berheim-Jeune. He has shown his works at exhibitions in Poland many times - in Krakow, Warsaw and Lviv. From 1933 he belonged to the Warsaw group of Modern Artists. After the war, he still lived in Paris and participated in exhibitions... Read full biography
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Painter associated with École de Paris; he began his studies in 1913-14 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. They were interrupted, however, by the Austrian army. He was wounded in the fighting, he was captured by the Russians and he was in the camps in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk.
In 1920 he returned to Lviv, and in 1921-22 he began painting studies at the Kraków Academy with T.Axentowicz, and in 1922-23 with A. Archipenka in Berlin. In 1923 he left for Paris, where he remained permanently. He was a co-founder of the Four Group (with Menkes, Weingart, Weissberg). He exhibited at the Paris Autumn Salon, at Galerie Zak and Berheim-Jeune.
He has shown his works at exhibitions in Poland many times - in Krakow, Warsaw and Lviv. From 1933 he belonged to the Warsaw group of Modern Artists. After the war, he still lived in Paris and participated in exhibitions. In 1949 he was in Israel; he had individual exhibitions in Tel-Aviv and Haifa.
He also exhibited in London. A retrospective exhibition of his work took place in 1970 in Geneva. The artist painted landscapes, still lifes and figural compositions - initially put into compact, strong forms, and later soft, "disheveled", turning to ever stronger expression, and after 1950 even allusive abstraction.Biography from Montefiore Auction House
Alfred Aberdam (1894 Lviv - 1963)
In 1911, Alfred Aberdam started to study art at the Munich Academy. During World War I he was imprisoned by the Russians and stayed in the camp for prisoners of war in Siberia. In 1921 in Poland, he began his studies at Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Teodora Axentowicz, then lived in Paris. There, Alfred Aberdam participated in numerous exhibitions, and in a Poland exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art Editions in 1929. In the latter he organized the exhibition in 1931.
In 1932 he exhibited in Warsaw and Lviv. From 1933 he belonged to a group of visual artists known as "Nowoczesni". In 1935, Alfred Aberdam took part in the exhibition of Polish artists in the Paris Galerie des Beaux-Arts. After World War II he made solo exhibitions in Paris (1952), London (1961) and Tel-Aviv (1962). He died in 1963 in Paris. In 1970 in the Geneva Petit Palais arranged a retrospective exhibition of his art work.