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28: 257:. Its basic premise rejects the illusion of space in favor of two-dimensionality; color is reduced to black, white, and red, and visual equivalents of images are accomplished by mechanical means using rhythmic arrangements of lines and simple geometrical forms such as circles and squares. Along with the publication he organises the first mechanofaktura exhibition at the Austro-Daimler Automobile Salon. 274:, which obtained a contract for the Plutos chocolate brochure. In 1926 Berlewi quit his research and returned to figurative art, working as a set designer. In 1928 he settled in Paris along with other Polish and Jewish artists. In 1928-1938 he traveled through Belgium and made a few portraits of the political and literary world until he learned that he was seriously ill and stopped working. 135: 281:, and in 1943-1944 joined the French Resistance. In 1947 he returned to painting. Wanting to "reintroduce the object", he created still lives inspired by the French masters of the 17th century. Rediscovered by a French critic, Berlewi took part in a major Paris show, 157:, and was active in Polish art circles. Supported by his mother, Berlewi studied fine art in Warsaw (1904–1909), Antwerp (1909–1910), and Paris (1911–1912), returning to Warsaw in 1913 to study at the school of design. During World War I he discovered 285:(1957). Suddenly appreciated again, he held one-man shows in Berlin (1963, 1964), Paris (1965), and Warsaw (1966). After his death more shows were held in Zurich (1974) and New York (1976, 1978). He died in Paris. 270:
magazine and gallery to exhibit his mechanofaktura works in Berlin; the German version of his manifesto was published. Later in 1924 he founded the Reklama-Mechano advertising agency with Wat and
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was obsolete and was replaced by Novembergruppe's Dada and by constructivism. In March 1924 Berlewi published his theoretical tract (in progress since 1922)
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book design and typography in the early 1920s. He drew portraits of many Jewish writers and artists, among them
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Berlewi was born in Warsaw to an assimilated Polish Jewish family. He studied art in
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he was chosen to represent Jewish artists from Eastern Europe at the
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A photograph of Henryk Berlewi in Berlin by Helmutz Lortz (1962)
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18 Most Important Polish Graphic Designers of the 20th Century
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In November 1923 Berlewi returned to Warsaw, where with
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The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language
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Warsaw
Paris
Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Arts Décoratifs
Yiddish
painter
art theorist
Yiddish
Uri Zvi Greenberg

op-art
Edward Hartwig
Antwerp
Paris
Futurism
Dada
Aleksander Wat
Anatol Stern
El Lissitzky
Berlin
constructivist
Novembergruppe exhibition
Jankel Adler
International Congress of Progressive Artists
Viking Eggeling
László Moholy-Nagy
Theo van Doesburg
Gerhard Richter

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