Leon Abramowicz (1889-1978) - weiblicher Akt

Leon Abramowicz (March 18, 1889 – February 15, 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 in 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. Subsequently he settled in Vienna as a freelance painter and graphic artist. He soon found success and received commissions from the USA, particularly for portraits. This enabled him to rent a studio in Wiener Prinz-Eugen-Straße and to buy for himself and his wife Maria, born Prenosyl (b. 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 under Karl Raupp and Ludwig von Herterich.

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