Objects

The painting from around 1930 (oil, canvas, 27 x 35 cm) presents a gentle slope of a small hill. On the left, there is brown ground with white and blue spots of snow. On the right, there is a small tree with brown leaves. Above the hill, there was a vast expanse of sky with white and pinkish clouds. Signature at the bottom: "Behrman".

Adolf (Abraham) Behrman (1876–1942) – painter, member of the Silver Carriage Group (Srebrny Wóz), inter alia. He studied in Munich and Paris, he settled down permanently in Łódź in 1910. He belonged to the Association of Artists and Supporters of Fine Arts in Łódź, where he was an artistic director. During World War I, he ran his own art school there. After 1920, he travelled a lot - he was in Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, Egypt, Palestine (1924–1927), Morocco (1932–1935). Later, he also travelled to Italy, France, Spain and Germany. In the 1930s, he used to come to Kazimierz Dolny. He created landscapes, portraits, genre scenes and still lifes. In September 1939, he moved to Białystok, where he worked in the copyists' workshop of old masters in the local ghetto. He was murdered in the Białystok ghetto.