Erno Erb
Ernő (Isaak) Erb (* 1878 or 1890 in Lemberg ; † 1943 there ) was a Polish painter of Jewish descent.
Ernö Erb painted as an autodidact , but was recognized as a full artist. He mostly created oil paintings , more rarely watercolors and pastel paintings . Erb painted genre scenes from the everyday life of the Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian residents of Lviv, still lifes and landscapes . He showed his works in exhibitions in Lviv and Krakow as well as in the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Warsaw . Ernő Erb also created wall paintings in the synagogues as well as stage sets and costumes for the Vaudeville theaters .
Erb spent most of his life in Lviv and in the nearby spa town of Truskavets . After the outbreak of World War II and the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland , Lviv was annexed to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on September 22, 1939 . After the " Operation Barbarossa " and the invasion of German armed forces on June 30, 1941, the persecution of the Jewish population of Lviv began. Ernő Erb was imprisoned in the Lemberg-Janowska forced labor camp and died there in 1943.
His works survived the war in the collections of Polish friends and are now in the collections of the National Museum in Cracow , the Lviv National Art Gallery and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw .
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| SURNAME | Erb, Erno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Erb, Isaac |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter of Jewish descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1943 |
| Place of death | Lviv |