Abraham Neumann

The Ghetto Memory Trail, the intersection of Dąbrówki and Janowa Wola streets. Here in 1942 the Germans murdered Abraham Neumann and Mordechai Gebirtig.

Abraham Neumann (February 6, 1873 – June 4, 1942) was a Polish-Jewish painter and artist active in Kraków and Mandatory Palestine.

Biography Neumann was born in Sierpc, Congress Poland, on February 6, 1873. In 1892, at the age of 19, he went to Warsaw to study painting and later, in 1897, after being influenced by Samuel Hirszenberg, he decided to study in Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1903, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian. At that time, he also visited England, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. In addition, he also spent time in Israel prior to its founding (British mandate in Palestine), and in the United States where he traveled after the First World War. He taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem during the years 1925–1927. In 1909, he took part in an exhibition of paintings executed en plein air in Rybiniszki in the Polish Livonia [eastern Latvia]. He lived in Zakopane, Poland, Vienna, and Kraków.

His works consist of paintings of landscapes from the Tatra Mountains, Kazimierz Dolny, Brittany, Palestine, as well as portraits and still lives. He was the first Jewish painter from Poland to go to Palestine in 1904,

Gallery of works

Selected works Abraham Neumann (1873-1942) at Gallery97, Tel Aviv