Objects

The painting from around 1930 (oil, canvas, 65.5 x 50 cm) presents a section of a street with a girl and a flock of geese. Six white geese are located in the foreground, a girl is standing behind them, facing forward, holding a stick. The street is closed by a massive house on the left. Only its facade with high windows and doors is visible. On the right, in the foreground, there is a wooden fence overgrown with weeds, there is a house a little further, the roof of which is obscured by the crown of a tree. The house is lit with very bright light. The road is a perspective, enclosed in the depths by greenery. In the lower left-hand corner, there is a signature: "Ascher".

Jerzy Ascher (1884-1944) - a painter and architect of Jewish origin. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and then in Berlin. After his studies, he lived in Kraków, and moved to the south of France in 1925, where he settled down in La Ciotat. He created landscapes, still lifes and portraits. During World War II, he was murdered in Auschwitz.