Abraham Freifeld

• Name — Abraham Freifeld • Born — Noua Suliță, Hotin County, Kingdom of Romania (now Ukraine) • Birthplace — 1921 • Died — 22 November 2011 1921 • Place of death — Santiago, Chile • Other Names — Abraham Freifeld Umanski • Education — University of Chile, 1950 • Spouse — Ximena Cristi

• Illustration — Abraham Freifeld (1992) TRAMPA PARA CAZAR ESPACIOS Nº 12 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 Liceo de Aplicación, 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.

Freifeld was married to Ximena Cristi, a painter, educator and professor. Freifeld and Cristi had two sons.