Henryk Berlewi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henryk Berlewi

Polish artist

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1894

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 02-Aug-1967

Profession: painter

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Henryk Berlewi (20 October 1894 in Warsaw – 2 August 1967 in Paris) was a 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.