Louis Schanker

Born: 1903

Death: 1981

Biography:

Louis Schanker (1903–1981) was an American abstract artist born in 1903. He grew up in an Orthodox Jewish environment in the Bronx, New York. His parents, Sam, a tailor, and Fannie Schanker, were of Romanian descent. He had five siblings. At an early age he had an interest in both art and music He took art courses at Cooper Union, The Educational A...