Maurycy Gottlieb
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Maurycy Gottlieb (February 21/28 1856–July 17, 1879) was a Jewish painter, of Polish speaking Galician Jews from western area of Ukraine. He was born in Drohobych (at that time Austria-Hungary), Galicia, modern Lviv region, western Ukraine.
At fifteen, he was enrolled at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy. Later, he would study under Jan Matejko in Kraków. However, he experienced anti-semitism from his fellow students, and left Matejko's studio after less than a year, returning to Vienna to pursue his Jewish roots, having been raised secular.
At twenty, he won a gold medal from a Munich art competition for Shylock and Jessica (at left), showing a scene from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. He painted the face for Jessica based on a woman, Laura Rosenfeld, whom he had proposed marriage to.
However, Rosenfeld rejected his proposal, and wed a Berlin banker. It is believed that he then committed suicide by exposure to the elements, dying of complications from a cold.
Despite the early age of his death, more than three hundred of his works survive, though not all are finished. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, many Polish collections unknown in the West were discovered, and his reputation grew greatly.
His brother, painter Leopold Gottlieb, was born five years after his death.
[edit] References
- Małaszewska, Wanda. (1996). "Gottlieb, Maurycy". The Dictionary of Art 13: 215–6. Ed. Jane Turner. Macmillan Publishers Limited. ISBN 1-884446-00-0.
[edit] External links
- Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur in Poem for Rent project.
- Biography of Maurycy Gottlieb
- http://www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Gottlieb.asp
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gottlieb, Maurycy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Polish painter and student of Jan Matejko |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21/28 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drohobycz, Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1879 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Kraków, Poland |
