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Regina Mundlak (attribution) oil painting still lif

22X17 inches unframed signed upper right. oil on canvas mounted to board. there is some old varnish on it. it could use a cleaning and a revarnishing. this is attributed to Regina Mundlak. it is signed Regina. still life with samovar. Regina Mundlak

1887, Poland - 1942, Treblinka Extermination Camp, Poland
Regina Mundlak, Painter. b. 1887 to a poor family in a township near Lomza, eastern Poland.
In 1901, at the age of 14, moved with her mother to Berlin.
Her talent attracted the attention of Max Liebermann, M. Lilien and Hermann Struck, who enabled her to study graphics and to exhibit her paintings.
When the Nazis raised to power Regina Mundlak returned to Poland.
All her life she lived in poverty and the figures of her miserable life remained the central theme of her work.
Her life in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation is tragic. She suffered from hunger and illness.
In spite of Dr. Emmanuel Ringelblum's (distinguished Jewish historian, author of the Warsaw "Ringelblum's Archives") efforts to intervene on her behalf during the "action" (trasnsport to a death camp) of summer 1942, she was deported to Treblinka extermination camp where she was perished. Holocaust artist.

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