Objects

The painting from around 1939 (watercolour, pastel, tempera, cardboard, 44 x 57.5 cm) presents a panorama of Kazimierz Dolny dominated by blocks of two churches. In the centre, in the far background, a body of a parish church is exposed, with a high brick-coloured roof. The northern side of the church is presented, with a visible chancel and side chapel. Closer to the left, at the foot of a small hill, there is St Anne's Church with a semicircular chancel seen from its north-eastern side. Behind the hill, there is a small hill with ruins of a castle. Low-rise urban development is presented on the left. The houses are shown schematically, those in the foreground are white. The whole picture is dominated by a sky in various tones of blue, white and orange.

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.