Erno Erb, The Rabbi

Erno Erb 1878-1943

The Rabbi

oil on panel

33.5 x 47

(lower left): 'E. Erb'

1987-91

Photo: Bridgeman images

Erb spent almost all his life in Lviv and Truskavets, painting urban motifs and genre scenes, populated with Ukrainian peasants and orthodox Jews, as well as landscapes and still lifes,...

Provenance

purchased

Literature

Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 40.

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