Valkovits Abraham
Pseudonyms,autonyms and aliases: Avraam, Leonid, Walkowitz 1878–1965  

WALKOWITZ Abraham (Abraham; alias — Leonid; Abraham Walkowitz)

28 марта 1878 (Tyumen) — 27 января 1965 (new-Йорк)

Painter, graphic artist


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Валковиц, Абрахам

Biography

WALKOWITZ Abraham (Abraham; alias — Leonid; Abraham Walkowitz)

28 марта 1878 (Tyumen) — 27 января 1965 (new-Йорк)

Painter, graphic artist

From a wealthy Jewish family. In 1889, after the death of his father, with his mother and two younger sisters moved from Siberia to the United States. Initial art education has received at school Cooper Union. Studied at Art students League, National Academy of design in new-Йорке (from 1898 — the first half of the 1900-х) У. Ширлоу. In 1906-1907 he lived in Paris, attended the Academy Р. Жюльена where he studied under the guidance Ж.-П. Лоренса (1906). In Paris he met max Weber, and through him to the О. Роденом, А. Матиссом, П. Пикассо artists and writers from the environment Г. Стайн. In the workshop О. Родена met А. Дункан whose image became one of the main subjects of his works: drawing the movement of the dancer for many years, has created more than five thousand drawings and watercolors.

Lived in new-Йорке. Traveled to Greece and Italy (1914), Austria (1931). Created landscapes, portraits, figures, genre scenes; worked in watercolour and etching. Passed through passion cubism, Fauvism, abstractionism,; was influenced П. Сезанна, В. В. Кандинского.

In 1911-1917 entered the circle of artists-модернистов who came together in the gallery "291" of the photographer А. Штиглица 5-й Avenue and known as "the Stieglitz Quartet" (А. Валковиц, А. Доув, М. Хартли, j. Marin); held in the gallery "291" his first solo exhibition (1912).

Member of the modernist Armory Show exhibition ("exhibition " Arsenal"") in new-Йорке (1913). A member and Exhibitor (since 1916), Director (since 1918), Vice-президент (1934) new-йоркского Society of independent artists; Exhibitor "Societe Anonym" (from 1920). Held a retrospective exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in new-Йорке (1939), Newark Museum in new-Джерси (1941).

In the late 1940-х lost his sight. In 1962 was awarded the American Academy of arts and letters. The last years of his life were spent in a Brooklyn apartment in the society of the niece.

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