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          After establishing himself as an illustrator, Arikha made abstract paintings until After this time, he restricted himself to drawing and etching, making a..

          Avigdor Arikha

          Israeli artist (1929–2010)

          Avigdor Arikha (Hebrew: אביגדור אריכא; April 28, 1929 – April 29, 2010) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.

          Avigdor Arikha, born in Bukovina, a German-speaking part of Romania, survived the horrors of the Holocaust through the drawings he made as a young adolescent.

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        2. After establishing himself as an illustrator, Arikha made abstract paintings until After this time, he restricted himself to drawing and etching, making a.
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          5. Biography

          Victor Długacz (later Avigdor Arikha) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Rădăuţi, but grew up in Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania (now in Ukraine).[1] His father was an accountant.

          In 1941, the family was forcibly deported to the Romanian-run concentration camps of Transnistria, where his father was beaten to death.[2] Arikha survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of the International Red Cross.

          Arikha immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1944, together with his sister. Until 1948, he lived in Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha. In 1948 he was severely wounded in 1948 Arab–Israeli War. From 1946 to 1949, he attended the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem.

          In 1949 he won a scholarship to study at the Ecol