Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865–1908 A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil
Synopsis
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 Łódź 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.Hirszenberg’s personal circumstances, economic considerations, and historical upheavals took him to different countries, strongly influencing his artistic output. He moved to Jerusalem in 1907 and there, as a secular and acculturated Jew who had adopted the world of humanism and universalism, he strove also to express more personal aspirations and concerns. This fully illustrated study presents an intimate and detailed picture of the artist’s development.Book details
- Series:
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Author:
- Richard I. Cohen, Mirjam Rajner
- ISBN:
- 9781802070798
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781789621938
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- Pages:
- 360
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2024-01-04
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- N/A
- Copyright by:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Art and Architecture, Biographies and Memoirs, Nonfiction