Pinchus Abramovich

1909–1986, Israel

Pinchus Abramovich (1909–1986) was an Israeli painter born in Mažeikiai, Lithuania. In 1925 he studied at the Kaunas Art School; in 1929 he emigrated to Palestine, spent his first years at Kibbutz Beit Zera and moved to Tel Aviv in 1932. In 1935–1936 he studied in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. His early work shows the influence of Expressionism and Cubism; in the 1950s he turned to abstraction. In 1948 he was one of the founders of the New Horizons group (Ofakim Hadashim). He taught painting in Tel Aviv in 1952–1972, chaired the Association of Painters and Sculptors in Israel in 1981–1984 and became its honorary president in 1985. He received the Monaco Prize (1966) and the Dizengoff Prize (1967). He died in Tel Aviv.

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