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Birth
1887 (Warsaw, Poland)
Death
1963 (Queens, New York City)
Lived/Active
New York
Subject to Copyright
Often Known For
urban landscape-genre, still life
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The following biography, submitted October 2005, is from Shirley Jones, daughter of the artist.
Samuel Kochmeister was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1887. He
immigrated to the United States in 1910 to escape the czarist
persecution of Jews in Poland and lived the rest of his life in New
York City. He died in 1963 in Queens, New York.
A self-taught artist, who painted under the name Samuel Koch, he
practiced his art while working in a factory to support hi (showing 500 of 1782 characters). |
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