Aleksander (Sasza) Blonder (Szaje Blonder, pseudonym André Blondel, born May 27, 1909 in

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, died June 22, 1949, in Paris) was a Polish painter.

Biography

Blonder was an architecture student at

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in Paris and subsequently studied painting at the

Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (, usually abbreviated to ''ASP''), is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Polish fine art academy, established in 1818 and granted f ...

from 1932 to 1936. Moving back to Paris in 1937, he started his own studio using the pseudonym André Blondel. He died of an accidental fall in 1949.

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