Paintings and Judaica from the Estate of Prof. Victor Deutsch - Part II
Description
Signed and dated 1920 (lower left)
Technique
Oil on canvas
Date Created
1920
Dimensions
24 x 21 cm
Provenance
Collection of Itzhak Einhorn, Tel Aviv
Estate of Prof. Victor Deutsch
Literature
“Gazit – 30 Years, 1932-1962” (Hebrew Art Magazine), December 1961-March 1962, Tel Aviv, plate 21 (illustrated).
Condition
Good
Notes
An earlier signature, mostly erased, appears below the current signature.
Biography
Lazar Krestin (1868-1938), Russian Jewish painter. Born in Kovno in 1868. Renowned for his Judaic genre scenes and portraits of Eastern European Jews. Student of Isidor Kaufmann. Worked in Munich, Vienna and Odessa before coming to Jerusalem in 1910 at the request of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design founder, Boris Schatz. Died in Vienna in 1938.
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