found: Wikimedia Commons, March 12, 2019(Jussef Abbo; originally Jussuff Abbu; born 14 February 1890 in Safed, Ottoman Empire [Tsefat, Israel]; sidebar: British, birth date given in sidebar as 14 October 1888, from Wikipedia; Berlin historic plaque (image): Jussuf Abbo, 14.2.1890 - 29.8.1953; Bildhauer, Grafiker und Keramiker; in Safed/Palästina geboren; kam Abbo 1911 nach Berlin; 1919 erhielt er ein Meisteratelier an der Akademie der Künste; Er war Mitglied des Deutschen Künstlerbundes; Wegen seiner jüdischen Herkunft musste Abbo 1935 ins Exil nach England gehen)
found: Wikipedia, March 12, 2019(Jussuf Abbo; born 14 February 1890, Safed, Ottoman Palestine; died 29 August 1953, age 63, London; nationality: Palestinian Ottoman, later Egyptian; known for sculpture, printmaking; born to a large Jewish family of farm workers; won a scholarship to attend the Alliance Israelite Universelle school in Jerusalem; employed as a stone mason by German architect Otto Hoffmann in Jerusalem, who arranged for him to study at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1913; by 1919 he had a master studio at Academy of Arts, Berlin and was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund (Association of German Artists); in 1935, realizing he was stateless due to dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, he managed to obtain Egyptian nationality; fled Nazi Germay to England with his wife Ruth Schultz; some of his sculptures arrived in England in 1937, much of it removed and destroyed by the Nazi regime as "Degenerate Art"; unable to work in his London studio during the war; at the end of the war in 1945 he was not able to keep his studio, and as a result destroyed most of the works created in England due to lack of storage space and frustration; died in a London hospital following a lengthy illness)
