Певзнер, Неемия Абрамович

Sculptor, graphic artist

Born Briansk, 4 August 1890

Died Waterbury (Conn), 23 August 1977

Naum Gabo was born as Neemia Abramovich Pevsner, the son of the owner of a metals factory. 1910-13 he studied in Munich, dipping into Medicine, Engeneering, Philosophy and art history. In 1914 he moved to Christiania (Oslo) where he was joined by his brother Natan (Antoine) Pevsner. In April 1917 they returned to Russia in support of the Revolution. In Moscow the brothers published their Realist Manifesto. In 1922 he went to Berlin as fellow organizer of the van Diemen show, and lived there for ten years. In 1932 he joined his brother in Paris. In 1936 he settled in London and in 1937 he met and married the American painter Miriam Israels. In 1939 he left for the USA where he (from 1952) lived in Middlebury (Conn.)

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