Samuel Finkelstein
Samuel Finkelstein (born 1890 in Sandomierz , Russian Empire ; died 1942 in the Treblinka extermination camp ) was a Polish painter.
Life
Samuel Finkelstein's year of birth is given as 1889, 1890, 1892 or 1895. He lived as the son of a businessman in Łódź and broke off his commercial apprenticeship in order to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Wojciech Weiss in 1913/14 in the Austro-Hungarian part of Poland . From 1915 to the summer of 1918 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . After the end of the war he moved back to Łódź.
Finkelstein belonged to the Jednoróg (Unicorn) artists' guild and from 1926 to the Łódzian group (later renamed Start). He joined the activities of the painter Tadeusz Pruszkowski in the painter's summer resort Kazimierz Dolny . Finkelstein also painted scenes from the life of the Jews in Poland. His compositions are located between painterly realism and post-impressionism.
Finkelstein was a victim of the Holocaust in the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942 .
literature
- Urszula Leszczyńska: Finkelstein, Samuel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 40, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22780-9 , p. 153.
- Waldemar Odorowski: W Kazimierzu Wisła mówiła do nich po żydowsku . Kazimierz Dolny: Wyd. Muzeum Nadwiślańskie, 2008
Web links
- Jakub Bendkowski: Portret w autoportrecie. Samuel Finkelstein , at Żydowski Instytut Historyczny , February 2, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finkelstein, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sandomierz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1942 |
| Place of death | Treblinka extermination camp |