Judaica vintage postcard 1900 Samuel Hirszenberg - Sabbathruhe

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Judaica vintage postcard 1900 Samuel Hirszenberg - Sabbathruhe:
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Samuel Hirszenberg

(alsoShmuel Hirschenberg) (Łódź, February 22, 1865 – September 15, 1908,Jerusalem) was a Polish-Jewishrealistpainteractive in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Shmuel (Samuel) Hirszenberg was born in 1865, the eldest son of a weaving mill worker inPolishŁódź. Against the will of his father, but thanks to the financial assistance of a doctor, he chose to be an artist. At the age of 15 he began his studies at theAcademy of Fine ArtsinKraków, where he was heavily influenced by the realistic painting ofJan Matejko.[1]After two years of training in Kraków, he continued his studies from 1885-1889 at theRoyal Academy of ArtsinMunich.[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 theAcadémie Colarossi.In 1891, Hirszenberg returned to Poland. In 1893 he resettled in his hometown of Łódź. While the images of the early years, like the paintings: Talmudic Studies, Sabbathnachmittag, Uriel Acosta and the Jewish cemetery, a certain kinship with the Jewishgenrepainting by Leopold Horowitz, Isadore Kaufmann andMaurycy 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 Sztandar / 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 Kraków. In 1907, heimmigratedto Palestine and began to work as a lecturer at the newly foundedBezalel SchoolinJerusalem, headed byBoris Schatz. After a short and intense creative period, he died in 1908 in Jerusalem.