Alfred Aberdam (1894–1963) was a

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of School of Paris, born in Lviv, capital of

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Biography

Born in Lviv in 1894, in 1911 he started to study art at the

Munich Academy The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...

. 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 he 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 "Nowocześni". In 1935 he 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, and in 1970 in the Geneva Petit Palais arranged a retrospective exhibition of his art work.

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* 1894 births 1963 deaths Artists from Lviv People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Polish prisoners and detainees Polish prisoners of war Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni Polish male painters Polish emigrants to France Austro-Hungarian expatriates in Germany {{poland-painter-stub