Objects

The painting from 1931 (oil, canvas, 51 x 62 cm) presents an artist standing in front of an easel, painting the landscape of Kazimierz Dolny. There are hills in the distance and the town's buildings in front of them. Just behind the painter, who is standing with his back to the viewer, there are fragments of a wall covered with greenery. A parish church appears on the right. On the bottom right, there is a signature: "Sam. Finkelstein".

Samuel Finkelstein (1891–1942) – painter, member of the artistic group "Start" and "Jednoróg" Artists' Guild. He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, and moved to Vienna to study at the Academy of Fine Arts later on. Then, he was associated with Łódź. He exhibited his works in, e.g., Warsaw at the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts. Like many Jewish artists, he used to come to open-air workshops in Kazimierz Dolny, which was for him a symbol of the universal shtetl. During World War II, he was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp.