Édouard Crémieux

Édouard Salomon Crémieux (21 January 1856, Marseille – May 1944, Auschwitz) was a French painter of Jewish ancestry.

[1] He initially studied with Marius Guindon [fr] and Fernand Cormon at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He married Adrienne Sarah Ester Padova, who was fourteen years his junior, in 1894.

They had three sons, two of whom became well known: Albert [fr], a doctor, and Henri, a popular movie actor.

In April 1944 he, Adrienne and Albert were taken to the Drancy internment camp, then transferred to Auschwitz, where he was murdered on arrival.