Dobrinsky Issac

Biography

Isaac Dobrinsky, born in Makariv (Ukraine) in 1891 and died in Paris in 1973, is a painter of the School of Paris.
Isaac Dobrinsky was barely seven years old when his father, a religious man, died suddenly. After an apprenticeship in a Talmudic school, he moved to kyiv for six years and began modeling clay figures. He studied at the Sabatovsky Art School and earned his living as a can manufacturer.
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In 1912, Dobrinsky arrived in Paris, where he was warmly welcomed by the sculptor Marek Szwarc. He settled in La Ruche and shared his studio with Chaïm Soutine for two years. A year after his arrival in France, Dobrinsky fell ill and abandoned sculpture for painting.
In 1914, he joined the Foreign Legion, but was eventually exempted for health reasons. Returning to Parisian life, he attended the Académie Colarossi and met Vera Kremer (his father, Arkadi Kremer, was one of the founders of the Bund), who became his wife in 1926.
In 1928 he presented the painting Seated Woman at the Salon d'Automne.
After living in La Ruche for twenty-seven years, Dobrinsky moved to Rue d'Odessa in 1934.