Lazar Krestin

The grave of Lazar Krestin in the Vienna Central Cemetery with a different date of birth

Lazar Krestin (born September 10, 1868 in Kaunas , Russian Empire ; died February 28, 1938 in Vienna ) was a genre painter and Zionist .

Life

Krestin was the son of a Talmud teacher. He received his training after attending the drawing school in Vilnius at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He married in Kaunas in 1894 and moved with the family to Odessa . Because of the pogroms in the Tsarist Empire, he moved to Vienna around 1900 and worked there until his death in 1938. It is not known whether he received Austrian citizenship.

From 1901 he was a member of the Hagenbund and was regularly represented at its annual exhibitions in the Künstlerhaus Vienna . In 1910, Krestin stayed for a long time at Boris Schatz's invitation to his Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem . He supported the Zionist endeavors .

It rests in the new Jewish part of the Vienna Central Cemetery .

plant

Krestin became known for his portraits of Jewish personalities, genre scenes from the life of the Eastern Jews and from the life of the Jews of Palestine. Artistically he was in the tradition of Isidor Kaufmann .

gallery

Portrait of Dr. Salomon Ehrmann , 1913
Portrait of a Jewish boy , 1923
Portrait of a rabbi
Portrait of a Jewish woman with a prayer book

literature

S. Pride: Krestin, Lazar . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 81, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023186-1 , p. 537 f.
Wacha: Krestin, Lazar. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 262.
Krestin, Lazar , in: Bénézit , 1976, volume 6, p. 313
Krestin, Lazar . In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 2007, Volume 12, p. 355.

Web links

Commons : Lazar Krestin - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Lazar Krestin , at Vienna Central Cemetery

personal data
SURNAME	Krestin, Lazar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lithuanian-Austrian genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 10, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaunas
DATE OF DEATH	February 28, 1938
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Lazar Krestin , at Vienna Central Cemetery