Aba Fenichel – Artist
Biography
Aba Fenichel (1906 – 1986) is generally considered the most accomplished and well-known Jewish visual artist from Mielec. He was the youngest of five children of master painter Isaac Fenichel (who painted the Mielec Synagogue with his brother Israel Hirsch) and Chana Ostrow and the only member of his immediate family to survive the Shoah. After the war he emigrated to Israel and prospered as an artist and teacher in Tel Aviv until his death in 1986. Many of Aba Fenichel’s works have been exhibited in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Negev Museum of Art, and the Mishkan LeOmanut Museum of Art at Ein Harod. There are over 190 works in the Ghetto Fighters House Archives collection.
Gallery
Bałaguła — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz 
Maszerujący po ulicy (Marching on the street) — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz 
Matka trzymająca dziecko (Mother holding a child) — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz 
Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Mielec (Mielec Yiskor Book cover) — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz 
Simchat Torah — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz 
Stary Żyd (Old Jewish Man) — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz 
W getcie (In the Ghetto) — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz 
Portrail of a Violinist — photo courtesy Ira Friedman 
Synagogue interior — image courtesy Ghetto Fighters House Archives, donated by Miriam Novitch 
Holy Ark — image courtesy Ghetto Fighters House Archives, donated by Miriam Novitch 
Deportation March — image courtesy Ghetto Fighters House Archives, donated by Miriam Novitch 
untitled — image courtesy Muzeum Historii Fotografii “Jadernowka” 
watercolor — image courtesy Scott Genzer 
“Fleeting Lines” (1955) cover — image courtesy Scott Genzer