Daniel Moiseiwitsch was born into a Jewish family in Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine) in 1919, moving to England with his family in 1921, where he studied at the Davenant Foundation School and then at St Martin's School of Art. During the Second World War he served in the Loyal Regiment, and was killed in action in the Battle of Anzio in Italy in 1944. Three of his drawings were acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum posthumously in 1947 on the recommendation of renowned Jewish painter, David Bomberg.
Draughtsman Daniel Moiseiwitsch was born into a Jewish family in Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine) in 1919, moving to England with his family in 1921, and settling in Romford, Essex. He studied at the Davenant Foundation School and then at St. Martin's School of Art. During the Second World War, he served with the 1st Battalion of the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire).
Daniel Moiseiwitsch was killed in action in the Battle of Anzio in Italy on 24 February 1944. He is buried in Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio. Three of his drawings were acquired posthumously by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 1947 on the recommendation of Anglo-Jewish painter, David Bomberg. His watercolour The Pianist is held in the Ben Uri Collection, London and was exhibited in the archive exhibition Arts in Harmony: An Art Gallery’s Musical Heritage, curated by Ben Uri in 2014 for the Royal College of Music Museum, celebrating Ben Uri's newly accessed archives and marking the gallery's longstanding support for émigrés across the arts. Moiseiwitsch's sister Victoria (d. 2012) was also an artist who showed with Ben Uri during the 1970s and 1980s, and who donated her brother's work to the Ben Uri Collection; his brother Benjamin (1927-2016) was a professor in applied mathematics and theoretical physics. Moiseiwitsch was also related to the pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch CBE (1890-1963); this connection may have influenced his portrait drawing, The Pianist.
Daniel Moiseiwitsch in the Ben Uri collection
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