The Church of St Casimir
| Author: | Isaac Dobrinsky (1891–1973) |
Isaac Dobrinsky (1891–1973), a Jewish artist of Ukrainian descent, studied at the Kiev Drawing School. He left for Paris to study in 1912, and settled there. He made friends with young artists from the western parts of the Russian Empire, and shared a studio with the painter Chaim Soutine from Vitebsk. After the First World War, Dobrinsky attended the Colarossi Academy in Paris, where he met Vera Kremer, who had been born and raised in Vilnius. Her father Arkady Kremer was a prominent political figure, one of the founders of Bund, the Jewish socialist party. Dobrinsky married Vera in 1926.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė.
Isaac Dobrinsky (1891–1973), a Jewish artist of Ukrainian descent, studied at the Kiev Drawing School. He left for Paris to study in 1912, and settled there. He made friends with young artists from the western parts of the Russian Empire, and shared a studio with the painter Chaim Soutine from Vitebsk. After the First World War, Dobrinsky attended the Colarossi Academy in Paris, where he met Vera Kremer, who had been born and raised in Vilnius. Her father Arkady Kremer was a prominent political figure, one of the founders of Bund, the Jewish socialist party. Dobrinsky married Vera in 1926.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA I (2014). Compiler and author Laima Laučkaitė.
