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Avigdor Arikha
Avigdor Arikha – Romanian Roots, Parisian Vision Victor Długacz (later Avigdor Arikha) was born in Radauti, Bukovina (Romania), April 28, 1929, to German-speaking Jewish parents. His early life was marked by displacement and hardship; his family endured the horrors of Nazi persecution during World War II, culminating in forced deportation to Transnistria Governorate where his father tragically perished due to violence inflicted by Roma
nian gendarmes. This formative experience profoundly shaped Arikha’s artistic sensibility—a sensitivity honed through meticulous observation and a deep understanding of human suffering. He grew up in Czernowitz, Bukovina, continuing to develop his artistic skills at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (1946-1949), where he studied under Mordecai Ardon and Isidor Ascheim. Early Career & Abstraction: Arikha’s initial art…