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L. Krestin Oil Painting portrait Judaica signed Wom

signed L. Krestin 41,5 x 34cm without frame

framed: 51 x 43cm
attributed to Lazar Krestin. Purchased in Vienna Austria. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. The frame has come apart and needs to be reassembled. One small older repair/patch at back. Lazar Krestin (1868-1938) received his artistic education in his native Vilnius at the drawing academy and at the art academies of Vienna and Munich. He finally settled in Vienna permanently and travelled extensively to Palestine and Poland. Much of his work depicts the world of pious Jews on Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Krestin was a member of various prestigious art associations in Vienna and the Jewish Community of Vienna owned several of his works.
Lazar Krestin was born in Kovno, Lithuania and studied in Vienna. He worked in Munich, Vienna and Odessa before emigrating to Palestine. He achieved fame in the German art world for judaic genre scenes and his many sober portraits of Eastern European Jews. He was one of the most prominent students of Isidor Kaufmann
Russian Polish Jewish genre paintings and prints - European artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Moritz Oppenheim, Max Liebermann, Lesser Ury, Isidor Kaufmann, Lazar Krestin, Alfred Lakos, Jakob Steinhardt, H. Winter, S. Hirszenberg, Jehudo Epstein, Stanislaus Bender, Abel Pann, Leopold Pilichowsky, Hermann Struck, Joseph Budko, Arthur Szyk and others, all masters of representational art who captured the Jewish experience on canvas and paper.

framed (frame needs reassembling)

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