Eugene
Abezgauz was born in 1939 in
Leningrad. In
1973 he graduated the Leningrad
Vera Muhina
College for Industrial
Design with the painter-designer qualification. At the end of 1976 Abezgauz emigrated
to Israel - the documations for emigration were given up in 1972, but only in
1976 his activity as the nonconform-painter was the impuls for the government
to give him the permission for the emigration.
The
exhibition activity of Abezgauz envelop hundreds of expositions: from the small
apartment-exhibitions of the Leningrad
underground to such final historic expositions as "From Gulag to Glasnost.
Nonconformist Art of the Soviet Union" (The
Art Museum of the Simmerli University Rutgers, New Jersy, 1995) and
"Russian-Jewish painters in the century of changes. 1890-1990" (Jewish museum, New
York, 1995). Abezgauz is known as the founder of the "Alef" group. Its members
declared the disagreement with the late Soviet art and national policy.
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