Leon Abramowicz (1889-1978) - weiblicher Akt

Leon Abramowicz (18 March 1889 – 15 February 1978) was a Jewish Austrian painter who emigrated from National Socialist Austria. After his service in World War I as a soldier of the Austrian Army, Abramowicz lived in Switzerland and France and from the 1920s in Vienna, where he worked as a freelance painter. From 1933 to 1935 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Karl Sterrer. [2] Subsequently he settled as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Vienna. He was soon successful and received commissions from the USA, especially for portraits. This enabled him to rent a studio on Vienna’s Prinz-Eugen-Straße and to buy for himself and his wife Maria, born Prenosyl (*1907), an apartment at Schottenbastei 16 in central Vienna.
Abramowicz was born in Czernowitz in Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (today Chernivtsi, Ukraine), into a Jewish family. His father was a butcher. His brother Serge Abranovic (artist name; died 1942 in Warsaw) was known as the “Caruso of Operetta.” Abramowicz studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and from 1912 to 1914 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Raupp and Ludwig von Herterich. [1]

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