Abraham Ostrzega
Abraham Ostrzega (* 1889 in Okuniew near Warsaw , Russian Empire , † 1942 in the Treblinka extermination camp ) was a Polish sculptor .
Life
Ostrzega received his training as a sculptor in the workshops of Henryk Kuna and Edward Wittig . In the years between the First and the Second World War, he was one of the promoters of Jewish culture in Poland.
As a sculptor, Ostrzega mainly devoted himself to tomb art . He also made portrait busts and figural compositions. He received an award in 1923 for his figure group Motherhood , which was exhibited in the Warsaw National Art Gallery Zachęta .
The Ostrzegas plant was almost completely lost during the German occupation in World War II. Only his gravestone sculptures in the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw have survived . He spent the German occupation in the Warsaw ghetto and was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942 .
Work (selection)
His mausoleum for the three writers Jizchok Leib Perez , Jakob Dinesohn and Salomon An-ski in the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery is known as the Mauzoleum Trzech Pisarzy . It has the shape of a chapel with a semi-dome, in which there is an image of the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah “about the day of the coming reconciliation”. The tomb is guarded by two winged lions.
literature
- J. Sandet: Ostrzega, Abraham . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 529 .
- Zofia Borzymińska, Rafał Żebrowski: Polski słownik judaistyczny. Dzieje, kultura, religia, ludzie. Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2003, ISBN 83-7255-175-8 , Volume 2, pp. 277-278.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ostrzega, Abraham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Okuniew near Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1942 |
| Place of death | Treblinka |