Alfred Aberdam (1894 Lviv – 1963 Paris)
L’atelier de sculpt / Sculptor’s Studio, 1940s
oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm, 73 x 84 cm (with frame)
signed lower right: Aberdam
on the reverse: the artist’s handwritten inscription with his address (“14 Passage Victor Marchand”) and a label with the painting’s title, L’Atelier de sculpt
frame: decorative frame in shades of white
Alfred Aberdam —a painter of Jewish descent associated with the École de Paris. He was born in 1894 in Lviv and died in 1963 in Paris. He studied painting at the Munich Academy (beginning in 1911), and after World War I—following a period of captivity in Russia—he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Teodor Axentowicz.
From the early 1920s, he lived mainly in Paris, where he became associated with a circle of artists from Central and Eastern Europe and the so-called Group of Four (Aberdam, Léon Weissberg, Sigmund Menkes, Joachim Weingart). He participated in numerous exhibitions in France and Poland and was also a member of the “Modern Artists” group. His body of work includes figurative compositions, genre scenes, studio motifs, still lifes, and landscapes characterized by a distinctive, synthetic form and a subdued, refined color palette. Aberdam’s works are held in museum and private collections in France, Poland, Switzerland, and Israel, among other places.
From the early 1920s, he lived mainly in Paris, where he became associated with a circle of artists from Central and Eastern Europe and the so-called Group of Four (Aberdam, Léon Weissberg, Sigmund Menkes, Joachim Weingart). He participated in numerous exhibitions in France and Poland and was also a member of the “Modern Artists” group. His body of work includes figurative compositions, genre scenes, studio motifs, still lifes, and landscapes characterized by a distinctive, synthetic form and a subdued, refined color palette. Aberdam’s works are held in museum and private collections in France, Poland, Switzerland, and Israel, among other places.
