Sam Ringer

Sam Ringer 1918, Tarnow, Poland – 1986, Paris. Admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1937, Sam Ringer won the First Prize for drawing two years later. Deported to Auschwitz in 1940, he was then sent to Anneberg, followed by eight other camps. Liberated in 1945 by the Red Army, he settled in Paris in 1947 and enrolled at the Beaux-Arts. He had two children, including singer Catherine Ringer. Throughout his life, his works, which refused the academic separation between abstract and figurative art, were exhibited at various institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, The Paris Jewish Cultural Centre and the Salon des Indépendants.