Agranov, Wulf Birth - Death : 1918- Nationality : Russian
Painter. Agranov exhibited his works in several Parisian Salons.
Aigner, Lucien Birth - Death : 1901-1999 Nationality : Hungarian
Photographer. He produced some portraits of Albert Einstein.
Airbus, Diane Birth - Death : 1923-1971 Nationality : American
Arbus was one of the best-known photographers in the U.S. Her works were shown at the Jewish Museum in New York in March, 2002.
Aknin Anne, Burdo called Aknin Birth - Death : 1922- Nationality : Russian
Painter. Anne Aknin took part in many exhibitions in Paris.
Akoun, Max Birth - Death : 1922- Nationality : French
Painter.
Akselrod, Akselron Meier Moiseevich Mark Birth - Death : 1902-1970 Nationality : Russian
Exiled by the Soviet authorities to Kazakhstan during the 1940s, Akselrod painted rural scenes. He returned to Moscow in 1944. Many may have confused him with M. Axelrod.
Albert, Ingeborg, called Ingo de Croux Birth - Death : 1911-1997 Nationality : German
Born in Munich to Lou Lasard and engineer Eugene Albert, Ingeborg Albert took to painting during the 1940s after studying with her mother and in various studios in Montparnasse. She worked first as a figurative painter and then turned to abstraction in the 1970s.
Albert-Lasard,Lou Birth - Death : 1885-1969 Nationality : German
Born in Metz, a French town that remained under German rule between 1871 and 1918, Lou Albert-Lasard studied art in Munich and then in Paris in 1912 with Fernand Leger. She befriended Alex von Jawlensky and painters of the Blaue Reiter movement with whom she exhibited her works in 1917. Though she married 50-year-old chemist Eugene Albert in 1911, she fell in love in 1914 with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and both went on to live in Vienna, where she met Kokoschka. After staying in Switzerland during the First World War, she went to Berlin in 1919, where she became close to the painters of the Novembergruppe. She settled in Paris in 1928 and met several painters and writers, such as Chagall, Kisling, Jean Cocteau and Paul Valery. At the outbreak of the Second World War she was detained in Gurs as an alien and managed to escape arrest when the Germans occupied France. After 1945, her studio became a meeting point for many artists and intellectuals.
Alcalay, Aharon Birth - Death : 1924- Nationality : Bulgarian then Israeli
Alcalay frequented the Academy in Sofia between 1944 and 1948 before he immigrated to Israel, where he taught painting at the Bat-Yam Institute of Art and at an art school in Ramat-Gan. He had several one-man and group shows in Israel.
Alconiere, Cohn Theodore, Tivadar called Alconiere Birth - Death : 1797-1865 Nationality : Hungarian
Alconiere's parents were Jewish, but in order to achieve a career as a painter, he converted to Christianity and adopted the name Alconiere. He studied painting in Vienna and then went to Rome before working for the court of the Duke of Parma. Known as a good portrait painter, he settled in Vienna after his stay in Italy.
Aleksandrowicz, Oskar Birth - Death : 1885-? Nationality : Polish
Graphic artist in Lwow.
Alexander, Stefan Birth - Death : 20th Century Nationality : Czech, then Israeli
Alexander studied art in Prague and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris before immigrating to Israel in 1949. This figurative painter exhibited his works in Israel and in Brussels, Vienna, Paris, and Bonn.
Alima, Rita Birth - Death : 1932- Nationality : Israeli
Painter. She belonged to the young avant-garde group of artists who established the “Ten Plus Group” in 1965, which rebelled against the older generation of painters and sought new paths. These young artists were greatly influenced by the Nouveaux Realistes\" movement in Europe and \"Pop Art\" in America. "
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