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Samuel Hirszenberg (born February 22, 1865 in Łódź – September 15, 1908 in Jerusalem) was a Polish-Jewish painter.

Hirszenberg was born in 1865, the eldest son of a weaving mill worker in Polish Łódź. Against the will of his father, and thanks to the financial assistance of a doctor, he chose to be an artist. At the age of 15 he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he was heavily influenced by the realistic painting of Jan Matejko.[1] After two years of training in Krakow, he continued his studies from 1885-1889 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich.[2] In his first major work, "Jeschibah" (1887), he experienced some attention. After an exhibition at the Kunstverein Munich (1889), he showed at the art exhibition in Paris and was awarded a silver medal. In Paris, he completed his artistic training at the Académie Colarossi.

In 1891, Hirszenberg returned to Poland and settled back down from 1893 in his hometown of Lodz. While the images of the early years, like the paintings: Talmudic Studies, Sabbathnachmittag, Uriel Acosta and the Jewish cemetery, a certain kinship with the Jewish genre painting by Leopold Horowitz, Isadore Kaufmann and Maurycy Gottlieb, can be assigned to the later rather the symbolism. Themes of the "tearful" Jewish history came to the fore. Noteworthy are the three most famous pictures of this period: Wandering Jew (1899), Exile (1904) and Czarny Szander / Black Flag (1905). For more than four years he occupied himself with the large painting "The Eternal Jew" before he showed it in 1900 in the Paris Salon. Disappointed by the poor response in Paris and the rejection in Munich and Berlin, he retired for health reasons.[3] In 1901, he went for a year on a trip to Italy. In 1904, Hirszenberg moved to Krakow, from where he emigrated to Palestine (1907). He became a lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. After a short and intense creative period, he died in 1908 in Jerusalem.[4]

Literature

* Susan Tumarkin Goodman:The Emergence of Jewish Artists in Nineteenth-Century Europe.New York 2001. ISBN 978-1-85894-153-0.
* Richard I. Cohen,Jewish icons: art and society in modern Europe. Berkeley 1998th ISBN 0-520-20545-6. P. 223-235.
* Charles Black:Jewish Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York 1949. P. 43-49.
* Ruth:Samuel Hirszenberg: a biographical sketch.In:East and West, 2 (1902), volume 10 P. 673-688. Digitalsat

References

1. ^ Cohen 1998th P. 223
2. ^ Matrikeleintrag from the 1883 Samuel Hirschenberg
3. ^ Ruth 1902nd P. 685
4. ^ Black 1949th P. 44f. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ufxqq-NOLnUC&pg=PR6&dq=jewish+Artists+of+the+19th+and+20th+Centuries&as_brr=3

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