Nahum tschacbasov biography of christopher
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan (a territory of Russia back in ), Mr. Tschacbasov dominated the New York art world from the s to the s.
Nahum Tschacbasov, the second oldest of nine children, is born in Baku, a town on the Caspian Sea, in Azerbaijan, Russia.!
Nahum Tschacbasov
The following has been provided by Leonard Barton, the artists' stepson.
Nahum Tschacbasov, the second oldest of nine children, is born in Baku, a town on the Caspian Sea, in Azerbaijan, Russia.
His father, Stephan, emigrates from Russia, settles in Chicago, and starts a printing business using a new family name, Licterman.
Tschacbasov, with his mother Sophie and brothers and sisters, joins his father in Chicago just as the financial crash causes the failure of his father's business.
Tschacbasov grows up in the Chicago slums.
He leaves school at the age of thirteen and takes a succession of jobs to help support the family. He attends night school for one year, studying electrical engineering.
He enlists in the Navy and serves as an electrician at Scapa Flow, off the northern coast of Scotland.
The light of the North Sea impresses him greatly. "Nothing could compare with the Scapa Flow. My feeling for color in my work has drawn from this palette o