Abe Wintner, who owned the Abe Wintner Judaic Art Co. on Beverly Boulevard opened his store at 7319 Beverly Boulevard in 2010 and filled it with Judaic artworks and ceremonial pieces. Abe’s parents and relatives endured untold hardships during World War II while living in the former Czechoslovakian village, Kosice. Abe was born, while his parents were hiding from the nazis in 1945 in the mountains of Czechoslovakia. Wintner’s father and mother fled their village as the Nazis were advancing in 1943, and lived for approximately one year in the nearby Tatra Mountains.
His father, Eliezer, owned a successful textile business and had considerable wealth. Eliezer Wintner has been credited with saving the lives of over 10,000 Jews who otherwise would likely have perished. He used his money to bribe the Germans and Czech police to allow them to go into the mountains. They survived on very little food.
The Wintner family moved to Belgium, Israel, and later Los Angeles. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Wintner attended a rabbinical school in Baltimore, Ner Israel, where he began collecting antique Judaic art. He saved small increments of money sent by his family for clothing and food and used it to buy antique menorahs, candlesticks, spice boxes, and items used in religious ceremonies. It would turn into a personal desire for collecting artworks that he said represented the strength and resolve of the Jewish people. “It’s the only store specializing in antique Judaica west of New York, ” Wintner said. “I am addicted to it. Some people drink or fool around. This is my addiction — art. Wintner credited his love for art collecting with helping him put the memories of the past somewhat to rest, his store brought a renewed sense of peace to his life.
Abe married Yvonne in 1979 and has 2 children, Dahlia who lives in Raanana, and Yoni living in Los Angeles. Abe has been blessed with 7 grandchildren. Wintner regularly travels to auctions around the country. His collection has grown to include more than 800 pieces, from paintings, drawings, and sculptures to engraved silver and hand-carved wood pieces. Many of the artworks date back 300 to 400 years.
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LOT 45:
"My Camp" Memorial of the Holocaust, Eva Kolosvary, 1993
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"My Camp" Memorial of the Holocaust, Eva Kolosvary, 1993
Poignant artwork depicts the entrance way into a concentration camp with an imitation model of what a gas chamber looked like. Detailed work amplifying the horrors of the chamber, its aftereffects and harsh reality.
Artist writes: "I was one of the hidden children of the holocaust, which i survived in Budapest. In this sense, history preserved me to remain a child. Perhaps this formed my fascination with discarded objects. From my collection of found objects, I chose those which befit of thoughts of that particular moment of my creative process. Discarded objects have a previous life... and weather, dirt, mangling forces and oxidation alter and mature them, causing them to reach a state of beauty. Their forms become aesthetically more relevant because they have been deprived of their commercial references. They reincarnate through my vision and artistic activities, as I restructure them, assemble them for a new and potentially eternal art. - Eva Kolosvary
Eva Kolosvary-Stupler (Born 1937 in Hungary) is known for muscular assemblages bristling with character and energy.
Dimensions; 25in H., 7in L., 5in W., 63cm H., 17.5cm L., 12cm W.,
