Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865-1908 - A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil (Hardcover)

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 Lodz 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 Krakow, 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.

General

Imprint:	Liverpool University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Release date:	March 2022
Authors:	Richard I. Cohen (Emeritus Professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry) • Mirjam Rajner (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Jewish Art)
Dimensions:	242 x 170 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	361
ISBN-13:	978-1-78962-193-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
LSN:	1-78962-193-3
Barcode:	9781789621938

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