Albert Abramovitz, painter and printmaker, was born in Riga, Latvia, on January 24, 1879. He studied art at the Imperial Art School in Odessa and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. While in Paris, he became a member of the Salon in 1911, and he served on its jury in 1913. Abramovitz also became a member of the Societaire Salon d'Automne. While in Europe he received a medal at Clichy, as well as the Grand Prize at the Universal Exposition in Rome and Turin, Italy in 1911.

In 1916, Abramovitz immigrated to the United States. His first solo show was at the Civic Club in Manhattan in 1921. Between 1927 and 1929, he was a resident of Los Angeles, California, but by the mid 1930s he had relocated to Brooklyn, New York. Abramovitz worked in the graphic arts division of the Federal Art Project WPA in New York and eighteen of his wood engravings are listed in U.S. General Services Administration’s WPA guidebook to WPA art, Artwork in Non-Federal Repositories. His graphic work was included in both the 1938 and the 1939 International Exhibition of Lithographs and Wood Engraving at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1940, a solo exhibition of his work was mounted at the Bonestell Gallery and Abramovitz was included in exhibitions sponsored by the Union of American Artists, the American Artists Congress, the ACA Gallery, the New-Age Gallery, the National Academy of Design, and the American Association of University Women.

In his graphics and paintings, Abramovitz’s imagery often focused upon social or political commentary. His works are in the collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas; the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland; the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas; the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; the David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University, Muncie; the Newark Museum, New Jersey; the Jewish Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; and the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Albert Abramovitz died on 13 July 1963 in East Meadow, Long Island, New York.