Name Erno Erb (1878-1943)
Born Lemberg, Austria
Died Lviv, Poland
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Object type painting
Medium oil on panel
Materials and techniques oil (medium) panel (support)
Unframed 33.5 x 47 cm
Framed 39 x 52 cm
Signed (lower left): 'E. Erb'
Acquisition purchased
Accession number 1987-91
Display status not on display
Erb spent almost all his life in Lviv and Truskavets, painting urban motifs and genre scenes, populated with Ukrainian peasants and orthodox Jews, as well as landscapes and still lifes, in oil, watercolor and pastels. His oils, characterized by rich, thickly-textured paint, have been compared with the works of the German impressionist, Max Liebermann.
1946
Subjects of Jewish Interest: Paintings, Sculpture & Drawings
Ben Uri Art Gallery
1990
Shtetl Scenes: A Selection from the Society's Permanent Collection together with New Acquisitions
Ben Uri Art Gallery
1997
The Art of Prayer: Featuring Rabbis, Scholars and Scribes
Etz Chayim Gallery
2018
Exodus: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
Bushey Museum
Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p.13 (illus. included); Walter Schwab and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 40.
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