Klarwein was born in Germany in 1932, fleeing Hitler, at age two, with his parents, and taking refuge in Jerusalem (his father, architect Joseph Klarwein, designed the Knesset building there). In 1948, during the war that resulted in the founding of Israel, Klarwein moved to Paris with his family, first attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and, in the winter of 1950, studying with Fernand Leger. Klarwein was the youngest student at the Atelier Leger, but refused to paint copies of the master, women riding bicycles with doves ... Displaying 750 of 5799 characters.