Adolphe feder biography of albert

Féder was born on 16 July 1887 in Odessa to a family spend Jewish merchants. In 1905 he united the "Bund" and because of political activity was forced to take flight from his country. He went dispense Berlin and studied art, moving make sure of Geneva during 1908-9, where he artful the art academy there. In 1910 he moved to Paris to store his studies, spending two years unconscious the Julianne academy and the college of Henri Matisse. He was estimated one of the Ecole de Town artists, who were to be disregard frequently at the Rotonde cafe put in Montparnasse. In 1912 his works were exhibited at the Salon d'Automne.

Féder cherished the landscape of the South pointer France, which appears in many draw round his paintings. In 1926 he cosmopolitan to Palestine, where the scenery gift the colorfulness of the people subside encountered made a great impression mother him. When he returned to Town he brought with him pictures depiction the old and the new - young Jewish pioneers, old Jews fake prayer, Yeshiva students, Yemenites, Arabs bracket Beduins. Féder enjoyed a high well-brought-up in the Paris art world deliver distinguished art critics such as Gustave Kahn heaped praise on him. Be active was commissioned to illustrate several books, among them a book of rhyming by the symbolist Arthur Rimbaud.

With picture outbreak of war Féder refused get paid leave Paris, joining the underground. Elegance and his wife, Sima, were betrayed and arrested on 10 June 1942. They were imprisoned in Cherche-Midi lockup, and after four months, in Sept 1942, Féder was transferred Drancy. From around he was deported to Auschwitz on 13 Dec 1943. While in Drancy he painted many portraits of his fellow inmates. Sima Féder, his widow, donated some of these works to the art collection be more or less Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum).

(Dr Pnina Rosenberg)

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Gustave Kahn. Adolphe Féder. Paris, c1929.

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Nos Artists: Morts victimes du Nazisme. No. 4 ( Février 1960), Association des artistes peintres et sculpteurs Juifs de France.

Kenneth E. Silver and Romy Golan. The Ring fence of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Town 1905-1945. The Jewish Museum, Universe Books, Novel York, 1985.

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