Alexander Bogen

1916–2010, Israel

Alexander Bogen (1916–2010) was born in Tartu, Estonia, and grew up in Vilnius. He studied painting and sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Stefan Batory University. During the Second World War he commanded a Jewish partisan unit in the Naroch forests, and in 1943 he returned to the Vilna Ghetto to help the United Partisan Organization (FPO). At that time he drew partisan and ghetto life. From 1947 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź; in 1951 he emigrated to Israel, lived in Tel Aviv, lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and headed the Israeli association of painters and sculptors. His work moved from realism to abstraction. His works are held by Yad Vashem, the Israel Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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