Isaac soyer biography
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Isaac soyer biography
Isaac Soyer
Russian-born American social realist painter and educator.
Isaac Soyer (April 26, 1902 – July 8, 1981) was a Russian-born American social realistpainter and educator. His art work often portrayed working-class people of New York City in his paintings.[2]
Biography
He was born as Isaac Schoar on April 26, 1902, in Russia.
He was the fourth of six children; his older twin brothers Moses Soyer and Raphael Soyer were also painters.[3] Their father, Abraham Shauer, a Hebrew scholar, writer and teacher,[4] raised his six children in an intellectual environment in which much emphasis was placed on academic and artistic pursuits.
Their mother, Bella, was an embroiderer.[5] Their cousin was painter and meteorologist Joshua Zalman Holland.[6] Due to the many difficulties for the Jewish population in the late Russian Empire, the Soyer family was forced to emigrate in 1912 to the United States, where they ultimately settl