[Cz-L] Avigdor Arikha

You would think that I had better things to do than look up information
about a painter who was originally from Czernowitz and about whom I had not
heard until recently. But I could not contain my curiosity.

I looked at photographs of his paintings and drawings accessible on the
internet and liked them very much because of his very personal attitude and
poetic style. Avigdor Arikha's paintings are very much like Selma Meerbaum's
poems and in that sense, very much imbued with a Czernowitz sensibility.

I also looked up his original surname, it was Dlugacz. According to the 1936
address book, there was a Moses Dlugacz living on #32 Dreifaltigkeit Gasse.
This might have been Avigdor Arikha's father.
Did any of you live in that vicinity or know him as a child?

Mimi
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