Landscape with a Hut
| Author: | Janusz Trefler (1896–1944) |
Janusz Trefler (b. 1896 Warsaw – d. 1944 Warsaw) studied at the Jewish Gymnasium of Exact Sciences in Warsaw, was taken prisoner during the First World War, and served as a volunteer in the Polish army from 1918 to 1920. After the war he studied art at Stephen Báthory University in Vilnius. He returned to Warsaw in 1926. He showed his work for the first time in an exhibition of work by Jewish artists in Warsaw, and held solo exhibitions in 1922, 1928, 1937 and 1939. He visited Palestine in 1934. Trefler was a painter, printmaker, set designer, musicologist and writer. He designed scenery and costumes for productions at the New Yiddish Theatre in Warsaw, and from 1937 he was a curator at the Jewish Museum of Antiquities, founded by the Warsaw Jewish community. After the Nazis occupied Warsaw, he changed his surname to Treflik. He was killed in 1944 while fighting at Żoliborz during the Warsaw Uprising, and was posthumously awarded the Polish Cross of Independence and the Cross of Merit for Bravery.
Source: Ellex Valiunas (LAWIN until 2015) art album: STORIES OF LITVAK ART (2023). Compiler and author Vilma Gradinskaitė.
Janusz Trefler, a painter and scenographer of Jewish origin, was born in 1896 in Warsaw. In 1920–1924 he studied at the Art faculty of Vilnius Stephen Bathory University under F. Ruszczyc. In 1922 he showed his works in the Jewish art exhibition in Warsaw. After graduation he worked as a scenographer in the Jewish theatre in Warsaw. He painted portraits, landscapes, still-life pictures and produced some graphic art works. He was killed in the 1944 uprising in Warsaw.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Compilers Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė, Jurgita Semenauskienė. Text author Dalia Tarandaitė.
Janusz Trefler (b. 1896 Warsaw – d. 1944 Warsaw) studied at the Jewish Gymnasium of Exact Sciences in Warsaw, was taken prisoner during the First World War, and served as a volunteer in the Polish army from 1918 to 1920. After the war he studied art at Stephen Báthory University in Vilnius. He returned to Warsaw in 1926. He showed his work for the first time in an exhibition of work by Jewish artists in Warsaw, and held solo exhibitions in 1922, 1928, 1937 and 1939. He visited Palestine in 1934. Trefler was a painter, printmaker, set designer, musicologist and writer. He designed scenery and costumes for productions at the New Yiddish Theatre in Warsaw, and from 1937 he was a curator at the Jewish Museum of Antiquities, founded by the Warsaw Jewish community. After the Nazis occupied Warsaw, he changed his surname to Treflik. He was killed in 1944 while fighting at Żoliborz during the Warsaw Uprising, and was posthumously awarded the Polish Cross of Independence and the Cross of Merit for Bravery.
Source: Ellex Valiunas (LAWIN until 2015) art album: STORIES OF LITVAK ART (2023). Compiler and author Vilma Gradinskaitė.
Janusz Trefler, a painter and scenographer of Jewish origin, was born in 1896 in Warsaw. In 1920–1924 he studied at the Art faculty of Vilnius Stephen Bathory University under F. Ruszczyc. In 1922 he showed his works in the Jewish art exhibition in Warsaw. After graduation he worked as a scenographer in the Jewish theatre in Warsaw. He painted portraits, landscapes, still-life pictures and produced some graphic art works. He was killed in the 1944 uprising in Warsaw.
Source: Valiunas Ellex (LAWIN until 2015) art album: THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES I (2010). Compilers Nijolė Tumėnienė, Dalia Tarandaitė, Jurgita Semenauskienė. Text author Dalia Tarandaitė.
