{{Short description|Chilean-Romanian sculptor, professor and engineer (1921–2011)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Family name hatnote|Freifeld|Umanski|lang=Chilean}} {{Infobox artist | name = Abraham Freifeld | birth_date = Noua Suliță, Hotin County, Kingdom of Romania (now Ukraine) | birth_place = 1921 | death_date = 22 November {{death year and age|2011|1921}} | death_place = Santiago, Chile | other_names = Abraham Freifeld Umanski | education = University of Chile, 1950 | spouse = Ximena Cristi }} '''Abraham Freifeld Umanski'''{{efn|Also cited as Umanskaia.<ref name="Ayala">{{cite news |last1=Ayala |first1=Walmir |title=UM SEMINÁRIO INTERNACIONAL DE CRÍTICOS |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWFWAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA26&dq=%22Abraham+Freifeld%22&article_id=2322,4310870&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitzc2DuraUAxX0QUEAHfplI8kQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false |access-date=13 May 2026 |work=Jornal do Brasil |date=13 August 1969 |location=Rio de Janeiro |page=2 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>}} (1921 – 22 November 2011) was a Chilean-Romanian sculptor, professor and engineer.<ref name="Poblete">{{cite news |last1=Poblete Krug |first1=Silvia |title=Ximena Cristi, premio de la crítica: "Hay que estar atento a estar vivo" |url=https://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.gob.cl/colecciones/MNBA/00/BA000093482/hay_que_estar_atento_a_estar_vivo.pdf |access-date=13 May 2026 |work=El Sur |date=26 December 1981 |location=Concepción, Chile |language=es}}</ref><ref name="AVC">{{cite web |title=Abraham Freifeld |url=https://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-40248.html#biografia |website=Artistas Visuales Chilenos |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |access-date=13 May 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref><ref name="Keter">{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia Judaica. Volume 3 |date=1971 |publisher=Keter Publishing House |location=Jerusalem |page=600 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediajud0003unse_i4x5/page/n323/mode/2up |access-date=13 May 2026}}</ref><ref name="Salazar">{{cite web |last1=Salazar |first1=Paulina |title=Visita a Abraham Freifeld |url=https://arteyciencia.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/visita-a-abraham-freifeld/ |website=Abraham Freifeld: Arte y Ciencia |access-date=13 May 2026 |language=es |date=23 October 2008}}</ref>
==Biography== thumb|Abraham Freifeld (1992) ''TRAMPA PARA CAZAR ESPACIOS Nº 12'' Freifeld was born in 1921{{efn|Also cited as 1922.<ref name="AVC"/>}} in Noua Suliță, Bessarabia (present-day Novoselytsia, Ukraine) to a Romanian-Jewish family.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Keter"/><ref name="Salazar"/> Fleeing Nazi persecution, Freifeld and his family arrived in Chile in 1939{{efn|Also cited as 1930.<ref name="Keter"/>}}.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Salazar"/>
Freifeld attend the {{ill|Liceo de Aplicación|es}}, before enrolling at the Engineering Faculty at the University of Chile.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Salazar"/> In 1942, Freifeld also enrolled at Arts Faculty of the University of Chile where he was a member of the Grupo de Estudiantes Plásticos.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Salazar"/>
Freifeld was an assistant to the sculptor Lily Garafulic.<ref name="AVC"/> In 1960, Freifeld became a professor of sculpture at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile.<ref name="Salazar"/> Freifeld was a professor at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Chile, and worked as an engineer for the Ministry of Public Works.<ref name="Salazar"/>
==Personal life== Freifeld was married to Ximena Cristi, a painter, educator and professor.<ref name="Poblete"/><ref name="AVC Cristi">{{cite web |title=Ximena Cristi |url=https://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-40220.html |website=Artistas Visuales Chilenos |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |access-date=13 May 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref> Freifeld and Cristi had two sons.<ref name="Poblete"/>
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