April 17, 2024
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING JOHANN EPHRAIM SILBERBORN JEWISH SURVIVOR
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JOHANN EPHRAIM SILBERBORN (1940-) JEWISH-GERMAN Measures 13 x 17 in. framed in gorgeous custom made matching frame behind glass. In good condition. The painting is signed lower right corner J. Ephraim Silberborn. It is ready to be hung in the finest part of your home or office. Dates to the late 1970s-early 1980s. Princess Caroline of Monaco bought several of Silberborn's paintings during a visit she made to St. Remy in the 1980's, they hang in her palace in Monaco. About the artist: Silberborn was born around 1940 in Dresden, Germany, the son of Jewish merchants, by the end of 1944, the boy finds a new home in Southern France, Arles, with a niece of the family. The fate of his parents is unknown, either liquidated in the Holocaust or trapped inside Communist East Germany. Silberborn attended the school in Arles under the name of Jean-Etienne Soriere. After graduation and training as a painter, he left to find an academy in Paris where his passion for painting could flourish. Abstract informal dominated his whole thought and creativity. He must have been about 20 when his first adventure began in Paris. It is known that he was included in intellectual and perverse artistic circles that included Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais and Dunoyer De Segonzac. They advised him to study painting further at the Free Academy of Arts in Paris, and during
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