Alfred Aberdam (Jewish-Polish, 1894–1963)

Alfred Aberdam was a Jewish-Polish painter. He began his career as an artist in Warsaw in 1922, he participated in the 4th Exposition of Painting and Sculpture presented at the Jewish Community Centre. Aberdam briefly lived in Berlin, working in the workshop of the sculptor Alexander Archipenko. In 1923 he settled in Paris.

He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, Salon d'Automne and Salon des Tuileries. Parisian galleries showed sustained interest in his work throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and organised many group and solo exhibitions (the first was in 1929). In 1945 he was invited to the Salon de la Libération and in 1949 held an important retrospective exhibition of all his work at Galerie des Beaux-Arts (Paris). The highly successful show later toured Israel. More solo exhibitions took place in Paris from 1952 onwards and the last one in Aberdam's lifetime was in London.

He died in 1963 in Paris, in 1970 the Geneva Petit Palais arranged a retrospective exhibition of his work.