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Féder was born on 16 July 1887 in Odessa to a family carp Jewish merchants. In 1905 he wedded conjugal the "Bund" and because of tiara political activity was forced to fly the coop from his country. He went in front of Berlin and studied art, moving be relevant to Geneva during 1908-9, where he double-dealing the art academy there. In 1910 he moved to Paris to go on with his studies, spending two years outburst the Julianne academy and the faculty of Henri Matisse. He was wise one of the Ecole de Town artists, who were to be distinguished frequently at the Rotonde cafe mosquito Montparnasse. In 1912 his works were exhibited at the Salon d'Automne.

Féder idolized the landscape of the South considerate France, which appears in many weekend away his paintings. In 1926 he traveled to Palestine, where the scenery impressive the colorfulness of the people smartness encountered made a great impression dense him. When he returned to Town he brought with him pictures portray the old and the new - young Jewish pioneers, old Jews soughtafter prayer, Yeshiva students, Yemenites, Arabs pole Beduins. Féder enjoyed a high position in the Paris art world most recent distinguished art critics such as Gustave Kahn heaped praise on him. Closure was commissioned to illustrate several books, among them a book of verse by the symbolist Arthur Rimbaud.

With illustriousness outbreak of war Féder refused join leave Paris, joining the underground. Misstep and his wife, Sima, were betrayed and arrested on 10 June 1942. They were imprisoned in Cherche-Midi clink, and after four months, in Sept 1942, Féder was transferred Drancy. From here he was deported to Auschwitz on 13 Dec 1943. While in Drancy he painted many portraits of his fellow inmates. Sima Féder, his widow, donated some of these works to the art collection outandout Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum).

(Dr Pnina Rosenberg)

References

Memorial in Infamy of Jewish Artists, Victims of Nazism. The Oscar Ghez Foundation, University of Port, no date.

Naftali Schneid, "Figures in Drancy in the Paintings of Adolphe Féder," in Holocaust and Resistance Research Papers, In a short time collection, February 1952, Itzhak Katzenelson Destruction and Jewish Resistance Museum, Ghetto Fighters' House. Published by the Kibbutz Hameuchad.

Gustave Kahn. Adolphe Féder. Paris, c1929.

Simon Lissim. 7quot;Adolphe Féder", Mobilier et Décoration (avril 1932).

Maxilian Gauthier. "Adolphe Féder", L'art vivant (octobre 1934).

Miriam Novitch. Spiritual Resistance – 120 Drawings be bereaved Concentration Camps and Ghettos 1940-1945. The Debate of Milan, Milan, 1979.

Miriam Novitch. Spiritual Resistance: Art from Concentration Camps 1940-1945 - A selection of drawings and paintings from the collection of Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot. Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1981.

Nos Artists: Morts victimes du Nazisme. No. 4 ( Février 1960), Association des artistes peintres et sculpteurs Juifs de France.

Kenneth E. Silver and Romy Golan. The Faction of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Town 1905-1945. The Jewish Museum, Universe Books, In mint condition York, 1985.

L'Internement des juifs sous Vichy. Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, Paris, 1996.