Jesekiel David Kirszenbaum

Jesekiel David Kirszenbaum (1900-1954)

He was born in Poland in the village of Staszow in the district of Sandomiertz in 1900 and died in Paris, France in 1954. He was the youngest son of a rabbinic scholar. He began drawing and painting at the age of twelve, mainly shop signboards and portraits of people he admired. He immigrated to Germany in 1920, and in 1923, he joined the Bauhaus in Weimar where he studied under Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky.  He moved to Berlin working as an illustrator and cartoonist for a number of Berlin Newspapers under the pseudonym Duvdivani.  He participated in Berlin in several paintings' exhibitions. In 1930 he fled Germany and arrived, together with his wife, as a refugee at Paris where a   ...  Displaying 750 of 7569 characters.