| Alexander Warshawsky | ||
| Birth Date: March 29, 1887 |
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| Death Date: May 28, 1945 Artist Gallery |
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| Alexander “Xander” Warshawsky and Abel “Buck” Warshawsky were 2 of 9 children of Ezekiel and Ida Warshawsky, Jewish immigrants from Poland who came to Cleveland from Sharon, Pennsylvania. Both brothers attended Cleveland School of Art and the National Academy of Design in New York, then went to Europe. Both brothers were pacifists, serving together behind the French lines in World War I, decorating soldiers’ huts with murals and organizing sports events. In recognition for this work, the French government asked them to exhibit in the Luxembourg Gallery.
Alex lived in Paris over a 25 year period. They returned at least once a year to Cleveland and several times when they came they exhibited jointly. Alex married Berthe, a designer of children’s clothes and had one child, a son, Ivan.
Alex is also noted for organizing an exhibition in Cleveland of Postimpressionism in 1914, a controversial show, but giving Cleveland the opportunity to view modern art. He lived in Los Angeles, California the final 12 years of his life.
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