Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865-1908 : A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil Hardback
by Richard I. (Emeritus Professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, He Cohen, Mirjam (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University) Rajner
Part of the The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization series
Hardback
Description
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 Lódz 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.
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:361 pages, 175 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:07/03/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781789621938
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:361 pages, 175 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:07/03/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781789621938
