Erno Erb, KRYM

73.5 x 97.5cm - oil, canvas pasted on plywood signed p.d.: E. Erb

Erno Erb (Lvov 1878 or 1890 - Lvov 1943) was an artist associated with the Lvov community; he lived in Lvov and Truskavets. He painted urban motifs, genre scenes, marketplaces, characteristic types of Ukrainian peasants and Jews, landscapes and still lifes. He used pastels, watercolor and oil paints. His oil paintings, characterized by the rich texture of thickly laid paint, were sometimes compared to the works of German painter Max Lieberman. The artist exhibited many times at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv and Krakow, as well as at Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery. In 1929 he took part in the General National Exhibition in Poznan, and in 1932 in the Exhibition of Polish Art in Buffalo.