Julia Acker

Julia Acker, artist (1898-1942) born in Lemberg within the old Austrian-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv,attended a number of the fine art institutes in the Lviv area. Painted scenes from the Jewish community, portraits of adults and children, still lives and flowers. A painting by her is in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, and her works have been auctioned in Eastern Europe, particularly, Warsaw ("Martwa Z. Nasturciami," oil on cardboard, DESA, Poland, Krakow)."Images of a Vanished World" published by the Centre of Europe Publishing House, Lviv 2003 (including exhibition catalogue from the collections, Lviv Art Gallery relates to Julia Acker and the many other Jewish artists of the first third of the 20th century.