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Sigmund Abeles was born on 1934 in United States, is an American printmaker and sculptor, born 1934. Discover Sigmund Abeles's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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1901

The only child of Samuel and Henrietta Abeles, he was named after his grandfather, a renowned Orthodox rabbi who immigrated to the United States from Hungary in 1901.

His father, a Hungarian Jew, was a decorated World War I veteran who used his pension to open up a retail business in Sheepshead Bay.

His mother was of Polish-Jewish descent and worked as a librarian before her marriage.

After his parents divorced early on in his life, he moved to Myrtle Beach with his mother where she started a new life by opening up a rooming house called Paul's Guest House on US Highway 17.

Spending a great deal of time alone in the rooming house, Sigmund grew a fascination for how many types of people occupy the same domain which had a huge impact and direction on his artwork took.

Sigmund Abeles received no formal art training in the public schools at Myrtle Beach.

1934

Sigmund Abeles (born 1934) is an American figurative artist and art educator.

His work embodies the "expressive and psychological aspects of the human figure; an art focused on the life cycle."

He taught art for 27 years at various institutions including Swain School of Design, Wellesley College, Boston University, the National Academy, and the Art Students League of New York.

Currently Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, Abeles works full-time in his NYC and upstate NY studios.

1952

In 1952, Abeles attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for only one semester because his mother would only allow him to study commercial art.

1954

In the summer of 1954, determined to pursue his love for fine arts and figurative study, he attended the Art Students League of New York where he was taught by Reginald Marsh, Morris Kantor and Harry Sternberg.

1955

In 1955, he received a scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

He worked under Edwin Dickinson and Isabel Bishop.

There he also made lifelong friendships with fellow students Sidney Hurwitz, Philip Grausman, Jerome Witkin and Ashley Bryan.

1957

In 1957, he received another scholarship to study at Columbia University where he received his MFA in Painting in just one year.

Shortly after graduating, Abeles was drafted into the army in 1957.

He was posted to Heidelberg, Germany where he worked as a technical illustrator in a cartography workshop at the US Headquarters Army where he made charts and maps for top secret nuclear war plans.

There he rented a house off base in nearby Neckargemünd that belonged to a sculptor.

It was here he developed a renewed interest in creating sculptures.

After serving two years in the army, he was discharged in Europe and spent the next year touring Italy, Greece and Israel with his then first wife, Gina Godwin.

They raised two children, David Paul and Shoshanna Lynn upon coming back to the US.

1960

In 1960, Abeles returned to Columbia, SC and found himself without a job.

He briefly taught adults at a local community art center until a position opened up at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, MA recommended to him.

It was his first full time teaching job, which was to last three years.

1968

Searching for inspiration, Abeles found Brookgreen Gardens, an outdoor sculpture park, which provided him with a multitude of beautiful bronze and marble figures to sketch; years later, as an established artist, he had his life-sized bronze sculpture, " Kaethe, age 9" (modeled in 1968 and later cast in Bronze in 2006), placed in Brookgreen's permanent collection.

2004

He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards for printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture, including Pastel Society of America Hall of Fame honoree in 2004 and most recently the Artists' Fellowship 2017 Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal.

His work can be found in many public institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

2012

Abeles was one of three artists featured in Manfred Kirchheimer's 2012 feature-length independent film Art Is... The Permanent Revolution, on the history of the art of protest in prints.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Abeles grew up in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

2015

Abeles was invited later to hold a major solo exhibition there in 2015 called "Carolina Roots".Shortly after graduating, Abeles was drafted into the army in 1957.

He was posted to Heidelberg, Germany where he worked as a technical illustrator in a cartography workshop at the US Headquarters Army where he made charts and maps for top secret nuclear war plans.

There he rented a house off base in nearby Neckargemünd that belonged to a sculptor.

It was here he developed a renewed interest in creating sculptures.

After serving two years in the army, he was discharged in Europe and spent the next year touring Italy, Greece and Israel with his then first wife, Gina Godwin.

They raised two children, David Paul and Shoshanna Lynn upon coming back to the US.

During his high school years, Sigmund was mentored by Truman Moore Sr., a wood sculptor, who pointed him towards the Boston artist Gerard Francis Tempest whom he later apprenticed with.

Abeles attended the University of South Carolina, initially for pre-medical studies to appease his mother but he later switched to art studies.

There he met Jasper Johns, an upper classman and became long term acquaintances.

They shared the same art professors, Edmund Yaghijian and Catharine Rembert.