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Henri Epstein

Henri Epstein (1891 - 1944) was active/lived in Poland, France.  Henri Epstein is known for Modernist, expressionist landscape, still life and figure painting.

Henri Epstein - Lódz - 1891 -  deported to Auschwitz - 1944

Henri Epstein's father was a bookshop owner who died when he was three.  His mother raised young Henri and encouraged his encouraged his precocious interest in painting. He studied first at the Jakub Kacenbogen Drawing School in Lodz, then at the Fine Art Academy in Munich until the age of nineteen.  In 1912 he first visited Paris, after which time he served in the Polish army.

In 1913 he returned to Paris and became a member of La Ruche until 1938, taking courses at La Grande Chaumiere Academy.* His initially fauvist *style evolved later towards expressionism*.

In 1921, Epstein illustrated Gustave Coquiot's work Vagabondages (Ollendorff) and in 1926 the work Les Rois du Maquis by Pierre Bonardi (André Delpeuch). He most probably participated in the inaugural edition of  the Jewish art review Makhmadim, published first by La Ruche   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4305 characters.]  Artist bio

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