Aaron April Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1932 -

Aharon April was a Russian artist and contemporary Israeli artist born in Lithuania in 1932. His works are in major public and private collections in Europe, Russia and United States. 48 of his works are in museums around the world.

April was born in Vilkaviškis, Lithuania in 1932 to a Jewish family. The family was exiled to Siberia in 1941, where April grew up and got his first impressions of the bleak colors of the northern land. In 1948 he managed to enter the Moscow Art School in Memory of 1905; then was forced to return to Siberia when Soviet authorities launched an anti-Semitic campaign known as “The Doctors’ Plot.” April graduated from an art school in the city of Yakutsk, and pursued his interest in history by attending lectures at a local pedagogical institute. An opportunity to study in Moscow arose after the death of Stalin, and in 1960, April graduated from the Surikov Academy of Fine Arts. He immigrated to Israel in 1972, where he lived till his death on 12 February 2020.