Abraham Freifeld Umanski (1921 – 22 November 2011) was a Chilean-Romanian sculptor, professor and engineer.
Biography
Freifeld was born in 1921 in Noua Suliță, Bessarabia (present-day Novoselytsia, Ukraine) to a Romanian-Jewish family. Fleeing Nazi persecution, Freifeld and his family arrived in Chile in 1939.
Freifeld attend the , before enrolling at the Engineering Faculty at the University of Chile. In 1942, Freifeld also enrolled at Arts Faculty of the University of Chile where he was a member of the Grupo de Estudiantes Plásticos.
Freifeld was an assistant to the sculptor Lily Garafulic. In 1960, Freifeld became a professor of sculpture at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile. Freifeld was a professor at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Chile, and worked as an engineer for the Ministry of Public Works.
Personal life Freifeld was married to Ximena Cristi, a painter, educator and professor. Freifeld and Cristi had two sons.
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