Ronald Abram - Jewish Amsterdam artist - Two (2) abstract etchings - 1962 - signed - Sold

• Ronny Abram

Amsterdam 1938 – 1999 Amsterdam graphic artist, painter
Ronny Abram was born in 1938 as a Jewish boy in Amsterdam South. When he was seven years old, he emerged from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a rough orphan and was put in a Jewish orphanage in the Netherlands. The war continued there as normal for him. Fortunately, an uncle and aunt brought him to the Indies two years later as their third son. For Ronny, that time finally meant peace. course Ronald Abram mainly made non-figurative, abstract work using etching techniques, copper engravings, lithography and screen prints. He also made pen drawings. Abram also enjoyed working with watercolor paint and pastel. He trained at the Academy for Art and Industry in Enschede and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. stay Abram stayed in Enschede until 1961 and spent a year in Paris from 1969 to 1970. From 1989 he lived in Amsterdam. membership and prices Ronnie Abram was a member of Arti et Amicitiae. In 1964 he won first prize at the Prix de Peinture in Biarritz, France. teaching position From 1980 to 1999 he worked as a model drawing/painting teacher in the fashion department and later also in the “free package” department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He often brought his daughter to lessons, who would draw along with him. He inspired hundreds of students at the Rietveld Academy and fought for what he called the New Figuration, a figurative art that does not ignore the developments of the last century in painting. exhibitions and collections 1966: XXIIe Salon de Mai Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Salon de Mai Paris 1970: 50 x 50 group event – Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1985: A selection from the collection of Museum van Bommel-van Dam – Museum Van Bommel Van Dam Venlo 1997: Persistent in imagination: the processing of the Second World War in the visual arts; Literature & Art Foundation, Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam, South Holland Resistance Museum Gouda His work can also be seen in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.