Shimshon Holzman - Artist Info

About Shimshon Holzman

Name variants

Shimshon Holtzman, Shimson Holzman
  • Biography

    Pinchas Abramovich was born in Mažeikiai, Lithuania in 1909. He studied in a Jewish school in Russia and received his first artistic education from an artist named Anniv in the town of Shibli. In 1926, he began studying in an art school in Kovno. At the age of 20, he immigrated to Israel and became a member of a kibbutz for Lithuanian immigrants near Binyamina. In 1932, he moved to Tel Aviv and worked for two years in Zaritsky's studio. He became a member of the Association of Painters and Sculptors in 1934. He traveled to Paris in 1935 to paint at Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He enlisted in the British army and served in Iraq and Iran from 1938 to 1945. Between 1952 and 1972, Abramovitch taught painting at the Kibbutzim College in Tel ...

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