Boris Borvine Frenkel, born in Kalisz, Poland, on September 24, 1895, and died in Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent near Évreux on April 30, 1984, was a Polish Jewish painter of the School of Paris.
[1] Boris Borvine Frenkel grew up in Poland in a peasant family and received a traditional Jewish education.
These years proved to be decisive; he established connections with Jewish intellectual and literary circles, meeting figures such as Else Lasker-Schüler, Peretz Markish, and Hayim Nahman Bialik.
[3] After a brief stay in Paris, in Brussels from 1924 to 1930, Borvine Frenkel dedicated his free time to painting, completing his studies at the Institute of Decorative Arts.
[3] That same year, he was expelled from Belgium, settling in Paris, where he only left in order to avoid the German persecution under the occupation.