Alexandre Heimovits - Budapest - 1900 - deported to Mauthausen - 1945
Haimovits was born on 1June 1900 in Hajduhadkàz. His father worked in the cereal trade. Haimovitz studied painting at the Fine Art Academy of Budapest and later adopted an abstract style.
In 1933 he arrived in Paris where he and his pianist wife Margarette Adler lived almost in poverty. He worked periodically with Jean Lurçat and mingled with Arpad Szenes and Vieira da Silva’s wife. Between November 1942 and April 1943 Adler was interned in Drancy, leaving Heimovits alone with his baby daughter.
After hiding his daughter with a family in Vitry-le-François, he hid in the Hungarian sculptor Anton Prinner’s atelier. With their Hungarian passports the family secured tickets back to Budapest on 25 August 1943, however, the train was stopped and searched just before arrival. Adler and her daughter escaped, crossing the Rumanian border to Arad, where they were hidden by her family.
Haimovitz was deported from Budapest to Ravensbruck, then to Mauthausen. He died
Nadine Nieszawer, Marie Boyé, Paul Fogel
"Peintres Juifs à Paris 1905-1939 Ecole de Paris"
Editons Denoel 2000
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