Artist

Henryk Berlewi

Portrait of Henryk Berlewi
Portrait of Henryk Berlewi

Polish, 1894–1967

Henryk Berlewi was a Polish Modernism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Henryk Berlewi was born in Warsaw.

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.

Works by Henryk Berlewi

Collections represented

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