Henryk berlewi biography
Henryk Berlewi was a Polish-French painter, graphic designer and art theorist, who is primarily remembered as an abstract artist who paved the way for....
Henryk Berlewi
| Born | October 20, 1894(1894-10-20) Warsaw, Poland |
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| Died | August 2, 1967(1967-08-02) (aged 72) Paris, France |
Henryk Berlewi (1894–1967) was a Polish Jewish painter, graphic designer and art theorist.
HENRYK BERLEWI (October 20, in Warsaw – August 2, in Paris) was a Polish artist, graphic designer, typographer, art critic and art theorist.
Berlewi is primarily remembered as an abstract artist who paved the way for optical art, but he was also an important figure in Yiddish book design and typography in the early 1920s.
Biography
Born 1894 in Warsaw to an assimilated Polish Jewish family.
Supported by his mother, he studies fine arts in Warsaw (1904–1909), and later at the fine arts academies in Antwerp (1909–1910), and Paris (1911–1912), returning to Warsaw in 1913 to study at the school of design. During World War I, he discovers futurism and Dada and in 1918 meets the futurist Aleksander Wat and the formist Anatol Stern, Jews whose Polish-language verse he later illustrated.
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