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Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865-1908: A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil

Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865-1908: A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil

Cohen, Richard I.
Rajner, Mirjam

Hardcover

Series: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Art HistoryArtistsBiographies General

ISBN10: 1789621933
ISBN13: 9781789621938
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Mar 7 2022
Pages: 361
Weight: 2.40
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.97 Depth: 9.82
Language: English

Samuel Hirszenberg is an artist who deserves to be more widely known: his work intertwined modernism and Jewish themes, and he influenced later artists of Jewish origin.

Born into a traditional Jewish family in Lódź in 1865, Hirszenberg gradually became attached to Polish culture and language as he pursued his artistic calling. Like Maurycy Gottlieb before him, he studied at the School of Art in Kraków, which was then headed by the master of Polish painting, Jan Matejko. His early interests were to persist with varying degrees of intensity throughout his life: his Polish surroundings, traditional east European Jews, historical themes, the Orient, and the nature of relationships between men and women. He also had a lifelong commitment to landscape painting and portraiture.

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