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Léon Weissberg

1926

Painting of standing nude woman with long veil.
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Léon Weissberg

1895–1943

Born into a wealthy Galician family, the painter Léon Weissberg studied in Vienna. After serving in the Austrian army in World War I, he continued his studies in Berlin and Munich. He traveled in Italy and the Netherlands before settling in Paris in 1923. With the German advance on Paris, he took refuge in the Unoccupied Zone. French police arrested him in 1943, and after a short time in the internment camps in Gurs and Drancy, he was deported to Maidanek, where he was killed on arrival.

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