Artist, sculptor, and architect, Bernard Reder was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, part of Austria before World War II and a center of Jewish and Hasidic culture. About his early life in Bukovina, Reder said, "We were born already drunk with fantasy." His subjects were drawn from Jewish folklore, but also from Greek mythology, the Bible, and Rabelais.
In 1937, Reder moved to Paris and was befriended by Aristide Maillol. In 1940, when Reder was forced to flee Paris to escape (showing 500 of 2025 characters). |
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