Dimensions: 152.5 x 101.5 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Chaim Goldberg 90'
inscribed on the painter's loom
Origin
DESA Unicum, September 2017
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Chaim Goldberg. Return to Kazimierz on the Vistula River, Nadwiślańskie Museum in Kazimierz Dolny, December 10, 2013 - August 31, 2014.
Literature
Chaim Goldberg. Return to Kazimierz on the Vistula River, exhibition catalog, ed. Waldemar Odorowski, Nadwiślańskie Museum in Kazimierz Dolny, Kazimierz Dolny 2013, p. 85 (il.) and on the cover
Shalom Goldberg, Chaim Goldberg. My Shtetl Kazimierz-Dolny, 2009, p. 62 (il.), cat. no. 91.007
Biography
Chaim Goldberg came across several outstanding artists in Poland as a student: Zbigniew Pronaszko, Xawery Dunikowski, Henryk Gottlieb and Tadeusz Pruszkowski. The latter had the greatest influence on him. Several decades spent in America (he went there in the 1950s) are in Goldberg's work, among other things, a return to his family's Kazimier shtelt. The artist created a separate poetic vision of the past reminiscent of Marc Chagall's work.
It is worth mentioning that Goldberg's art is not only the colorful world of pre-war Kazimierz Dolny. The artist was versatile in the use of various media - sculpture was an important part of his work (he studied with Henryk Kuna, among others). He also created metalwork - an artistic branch in which interwar artists of Jewish origin excelled. Among other things, he used this technique to create the poignant composition "Gas Chamber" (storage location unknown), in which he used repoussed sheet metal to depict gas. He was also the author of expressive and dark World War II drawings and chronicled the destruction of postwar Warsaw.
