Albert Abramovitz
Albert Abramovitz
Russian, 1879 - 1963
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BiographyAlbert Abramovitz was born in 1879 in Riga, Latvia. He studied at the Imperial Art School in Odessa and at the Grande Chaumière in Paris. He became a member of the Paris Salon in 1911 and in 1913 he became a member of the Salon’s jury. Abramovitz was also a member of the Salon d’Automne. In Europe, he received a medal at Clichy and an award in Paris, as well as the Grand Prize at the Universal Exhibition in Rome and Turin, Italy in 1911. Abramovitz went to America in 1916 and in 1921 he had his first one-man show at the Civic Club in Manhattan. During the 1940s, he had a one-man show at the Bonestall Gallery. Other exhibitions included the Art Institute of Chicago (1938 and 1940), Union of American Artists (1940), the American Artists Congress exhibition, “In Defense of Culture” in 1941, the ACA Gallery exhibition, “Artists in the War” in 1942, the New Age Gallery (1943 and 1946), The National Academy of Design (1946), the American Association of University Women (1946) and the American Artists Congress. Abramovitz’s engravings were often socially and politically oriented. From 1935 to 1939 he made 18 prints, which reflect a wide variety of subject matter, for the Federal Arts Project in New York. [IFPDA]
