About Alice Winant

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    Alice Winant (1928 - 1989)

    A well-known Canadian sculptor, Alice Winant (nee Czitron) was born in Targu Mures, Romania. Near the end of World War II (1944 - 1945), she was imprisoned in Dachau, Germany; Bergen-Belsen, Germany; and Auschwitz, Poland. After the war she lived in Stockholm, Sweden for seven years (1946 - 1953). She immigrated to Montreal, Quebec in 1953, where she lived the rest of her life and died. (1)(2)

    Her mediums were bronze, ceramics, wax, wood, plaster, and photography. Her best known subjects were portraits and figures of women and children; she also did abstract works. Her styles could be described as Realism*, Fauvism*, Naïve Art*, Abstraction* and Modernism*. AskART images have some excellent illustrat...

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