![]() ![]() In 1950 he published his first novel (L'âne ne monte pas au cerisier), strongly autobiographical and which, like the two that followed in 19, was inspired by his two years of internment at Sainte-Anne. It is there that he paints his portraits of asylum seekers and desperate beings. ![]() His vision was often tragic, painting small houses in dramatic light. He liked to depict the life of the Ménilmontant district and render its poetry and animation. On March 30, 1943, when the deportation and extermination of European Jews became systematized, Léon Schwartz-Abrys found refuge by being interned, like Jean-Michel Atlan, at the Sainte-Anne Psychiatric Hospital in Paris, remaining there until August 21, 1944. In 1939, he participated in the Salon des Indépendants for the first time with paintings which drew much attention and divided opinion.Įngaged as a volunteer during the Second World War, he was taken prisoner, then released by mistake. ![]() He lived successively at 11, rue Nicolet in Montmartre and impasse Deschamps in Ménilmontant. He arrived in France in 1930 and painted at the same time as he exercised various trades: worker in a steelwork in Nièvre then in a rubber factory in Clichy, in a brewery, as a house painter, then decorator. He was born Abraham Schwarz-Abrys on in Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary), into extreme poverty. Léon Schwartz-Abrys, self-taught French painter and novelist. In the foreground, the artist showcases the facade of the Lavoir des Rigoles, a former 19th century industrial washhouse, now demolished. Striking oil on canvas painting depicting a Paris streetscape, more precisely, rue des Rigoles, located in the Belleville district (north-west of the capital), between Montmartre and the Père Lachaise cemetery. ![]()
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