Joachim Aviron, New York, pre-war modernist abstract, mixed-media, SLL, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2”, 17 x 20” framed.
Joachim Aviron was a man searching for meaning. Born at the end of the 19th Century, in either 1898, 1899 or 1900, he was on the precipice of a time of great change. His birthplace of Mogilev, Russia was a place that saw turmoil and political wars for many years, Aviron left his birthplace right around the time of the Russian Revolution and came to New York City. World War I draft records show that initially Aviron found himself living with his mother, Bessie Aviron, in Manhattan on East 99th Street just off Madison Avenue. Aviron had registered himself as a music student and in the employment of a private music teacher. It was around this time that he began to compose music. There are records that show his ballads and music collaborations as early as 1920. Aviron had begun on his creative path. He then started to write poetry, and not long after his first book of poems, Songs of Supremacy, was published in 1926. Aviron wrote a follow up book of poetry, Dear Earth poems, which was published in 1927. In a newspaper article also from 1927, a critic reviews his Dear Earth poems and cites them as a "big improvement" from his initial book of poetry. The author then goes on to talk about Aviron's realist nature and his "wonderful sketches of courage and strength and love" in his writing and how he is placing himself in the greater meaning of life. Certainly high praise for a young man, somewhat new to the country, searching for meaning. It wasn't long after that he moved to Brooklyn. He found the meaning he was searching for in Brooklyn. Just three years prior, around 1924, Aviron had begun to teach himself how to paint. A music student and now a private violin and piano teacher living in Brooklyn, Aviron found himself drawn to his easel as a place to explore his creativity. He knew he was an artist. Around 1931, Aviron met and married Bertha Wohl. Ms. Wohl was a part-time substitute teacher in New York City public schools. She was to become Aviron's partner, supporter and advocate. It was in 1936 that Mr. Aviron entered several works into 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists. He was interviewed by a local Brooklyn newspaper where he told the author that he regarded himself as an artist, a poet and painter, even though his income was solely from teaching violin and piano to kids in Coney Island. In the article, the author captured Aviron's realist tone. A tone that the review of his poetry nine years earlier had captured.

17 x 20 in

10 lb