Frederick Serger (1889-1965)

Frederick Serger (real name: Frederik Bedrich Sinaiberger) was born in 1889 to a Jewish family of manufacturers in the small town of Ivancice near Brno (Brunn), Moravia, a province of Czechoslovakia. He studied in the art schools of Brno and Vienna and later in Munich. The First World War interrupted his education, he became an officer of the Austrian army and served in the Balkans. After the war Serger went to Paris, where he continued his art studies and soon joined the Paris movement "Ecole de Paris", School of Paris.

In 1927 he married a Polish woman, Helen Spitzer, who later opened "La Boetie Galleries" in Manhattan, New York. In 1936 Serger, considered an expressionist, was given a one-man s...