ARTIST: Soshana Afroyim (Austrian, 1927 - 2015)
NAME: Abstract Composition
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 12 x 4 inches / 30 x 10 cm
FRAME SIZE: 15 x 6 inches / 38 x 15 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
PROVENANCE: Galerie 99, Bay Harbor Islands, FL (has gallery label on verso)
NAME VARIANTS: Afroyim Soshana, Shoshana
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
The artist Soshana Afroyim was born in 1927 in Vienna, with the civil name Susanne Schuller. After the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany, the Jewish Schuller family escaped via Switzerland to Paris and finally to London, where the family remained for a period of two years. In 1941, they moved on to New York, where Soshana enrolled in the Washington Irving High School. In a painting class she met her later husband Beys Afroyim. Due to his membership in the Communist Party the couple left the US in 1948 and lived in Cuba for nine months, where Soshana held her first exhibition. Soshana moved back to Vienna in 1951, together with her son. Here, she studied at the University of Applied Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, amongst other classes in the one of Herbert Boeckl. Dissatisfied with their prevailing academic concepts, she abandoned her studies and moved to Paris in 1952. She traveled around the world, and then lived for a few years in New York, before returning to Vienna again in 2005.
Works by Soshana Afroyim were object of numerous national and international solo exhibitions, for example the exhibition at the Musee Picasso 1962 in Antibes. In 2010, she received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art. In 2011, the Gallery Bollag in Zurich honored her work with a retrospective.
Soshana Afroyim lived and worked in Vienna.