Henryk Berlewi

Henryk Berlewi
A photograph of Henryk Berlewi in Berlin by Helmutz Lortz (1962)
Born	1894 Warsaw, Poland
Died	1967 Paris, France
Nationality	Polish
Education	Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, École des Beaux-Arts, École des Arts Décoratifs
Movement	Constructivism

Henryk Berlewi (Yiddish: הענריק בערלעװי; October 20, 1894 – August 2, 1967) was a Polish-French painter, graphic designer and art theorist, who is primarily remembered as an abstract artist who paved the way for optical art, but he was also an important figure in Yiddish book design and typography in the early 1920s. He drew portraits of many Jewish writers and artists, among them Uri Zvi Greenberg.^[1]