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==Biography==
Victor Długacz (later Avigdor Arikha) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in [[Rădăuţi]], but grew up in [[Czernowitz]] in [[Bukovina]], [[Romania]] (now in [[Ukraine]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1083917.html|title=His Lifelines, Haaretz|website=haaretz.com|accessdate=January 31, 2018}}</ref> His father was an accountant. In 1941, the family was forcibly deported to the Romanian-run [[concentration camps]] of Transnistria, where his father was beaten to death.<ref>[https://forward.com/culture/153892/arikhas-art-of-rigor-and-confrontation/ Arikha's Art of Rigor and Confrontation]</ref>
Arikha [[aliyah|immigrated]] to [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]] in 1944, together with his sister. Until 1948, he lived in Kibbutz [[Ma'ale HaHamisha]]. In 1948 he was severely wounded in [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]]. From 1946 to 1949, he attended the [[Bezalel Academy of Art and Design|Bezalel School of Art]] in [[Jerusalem]]. In 1949 he won a scholarship to study at the [[Ecole des Beaux Arts]] in Paris, where he learned the [[fresco]] technique. From 1954, Arikha resided in Paris. Arikha was married from 1961 until his death to the American poet and writer [[Anne Atik]], with whom he had two daughters. Arikha died in Paris on April 29, 2010,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/arts/01arikha.html|title=Avigdor Arikha, Israeli Artist of the Everyday, Dies at 81|first=Margalit|last=Fox|date=May 1, 2010|accessdate=January 31, 2018|via=NYTimes.com|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104132400/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/arts/01arikha.html|archivedate=November 4, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> the day after his 81st birthday.
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