Pinchas Abramovich

1909–1986, Lithuania / Israel

Pinchus Abramovich was born in 1909 near Kaunas and died in 1986 in Israel. In 1925, he enrolled in the Kaunas Art School. In 1929, P. Abramovich moved to Israel and did not return to Lithuania. From 1935 to 1936, he studied in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Like other Jewish artists living in interwar Paris, P. Abramovich leaned towards expressionism, and later towards abstractionism. He is considered one of the most prominent Israeli abstract artists.