Simon Segal - Artist Info

About Simon Segal

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    Simon Segal was born in 1898 and passed away in 1969. Simon Segal was a Polish painter of Jewish origin. Segal was a École de Paris member in France and worked in the style of figurativeism.

    Segal was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Bialystok. Little is known about his period of life in Bialystok.[1] His father owned commercial warehouses. Segal's cousin, Molli Chwat (1888–1979), was also a painter. In 1915, together with his family, Segal moved to Tver, where he studied at a Russian polytechnic school.

    After the end of the First World War, Segal and his family returned to his native Bialystok, but in 1918 he left for Berlin, where he painted his first portrait. He became involved with a group of artists, mainly fro...

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