Wikipedia entry
Introduction
Henryk Berlewi (Yiddish: הענריק בערלעװי; October 20, 1894 – August 2, 1967) was a Polish-French painter, graphic designer and art theorist, who is primarily remembered as an abstract artist who paved the way for optical art, but he was also an important figure in Yiddish book design and typography in the early 1920s. He drew portraits of many Jewish writers and artists, among them Uri Zvi Greenberg.
Wikidata
Q709033
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Nationalities
Polish, Central European, Eastern European, French
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Writer, Designer, Painter
Names
Henryk Berlewi, Henri Berlewi, Henrik Berlewi
Ulan
500032191
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Works

8 works online

Exhibitions

Publications

  • Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, 1918–1939. The Merrill C. Berman Collection at MoMA Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 288 pages
  • Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 376 pages
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