Federico Guglielmo Jehuda Pollack, known as Gino Parin (25 August 1876, in

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– 9 June 1944, in

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) was an Italian painter of Jewish ancestry, a Catholic convert, and a Swiss citizen; known primarily for his portraits of women. He was also known as Friedrich Pollak or Polak.

Biography

Gino Parin was born on August 25, 1876, in Trieste, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
His parents, Lodovico and Berta, were German-speaking Ashkenazi Jews who settled in Trieste sometime in the mid-19th century. The Pollack family became distinguished members of the upper middle class of Trieste through their family shipping business. He began his studies in his home town with

Eugenio Scomparini Eugenio Scomparini (1 September 1845 – 17 March 1913) was an Italian painter. He was born in Trieste, and initially took lessons there from the engraver Giovanni Moscotto at the School of Design. His mother, Maria Scomparini, had heralded fr ...

(who may have inspired his pseudonym), then attended the

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. He finished his studies at the

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with

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.Biographical notes
@ the Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon. It was there he had his first exhibition. At first, he was mostly a

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; satirizing the conventional German bourgeoisie. While visiting Paris, he met Ella Auler (1875–1962), an artist and musician from St.Louis, Missouri. Later, they were married. Ella and their son,

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, emigrated to the United States and, together with his wife, Ingri, became a noted writer and illustrator of children's books. When he returned to Trieste, he began painting portraits; producing a long series devoted to the families of Ernesto Lackenbacher, an executive with (a

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), and Moise Mario Tedeschi (1853–1919), an engineer. In 1913, he won a gold medal at the XI Internationalen Kunstausstellung in the Glaspalast. Between the wars, he exhibited in Vienna (where he was a member of the

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) and Trieste, and had two showings at the

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. He also attended exhibitions overseas and was awarded another gold medal at the Internazionale Quadriennale of

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in 1923.

He maintained close ties with Germany, although the racial laws prohibited him from exhibiting there after 1938. When he was a young man, he had acquired Swiss citizenship and was a legal resident of

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.Biographical data
@ SIKART. Nevertheless, he was detained in Italy and deported to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Along the way, he became seriously ill and died shortly after arriving.

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More works by Parin
@ Blouin Art Sales Index.
Gino Parin
@ Our Family History and Ancestry: Bernethy-Eby-Scribner-Hord * {{DEFAULTSORT:Parin, Gino 1876 births 1944 deaths 20th-century Italian painters Italian portrait painters Jewish painters Italian people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Artists from Trieste Italian Jews who died in the Holocaust Italian people of Jewish descent

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