Country House
| Author: | Ben Zion Zukerman (1890–1944) |
Born in 1890 near Vilnius, died in 1944 in Samarkand (Uzbekistan). From 1906 to 1910, he studied at the Vilnius Drawing School, later – in Berlin, circa 1913–1914 – at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Fernand Cormon’s study in Paris. His sponsor in Paris was Baron Rothschild who bought his works. From 1917 to 1919, Zukerman lived in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, later – in Vilnius. He was a member of various art societies of Vilnius, Saint Petersburg and Cracow. In 1919 and 1923–1927, he visited Jerusalem, and from there, travelled to Egypt and Europe. Features of impressionism and postimpressionism are predominant in his oeuvre. He painted landscapes, portraits, still lifes, interiors, and created drawings in Indian ink. In Paris, he created illustrations for the Jewish art magazine Machmadim, between 1917 and 1919, designed an album of Jewish folk art compiled by S. An-ski (unpublished) in Moscow, and illustrated the Yiddish children’s magazine Green Trees published in Vilnius. Solo exhibitions of his works were held in Paris, Vilnius, Moscow and Kaunas.
Source: Académie de Vilna: Vilniaus piešimo mokykla 1866-1915 / Vilnius drawing school: Exhibition Catalogue, Nacionalinė dailės galerija 2017 m. 4 d. - lapkričio 26 d., compiled by Jolanta Širkaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, p. 360.
Benzion Zukerman was born in the Vilnius province in a traditional shtetl, the 12-year-old Benzion Zukerman went to study in a Vilnius yeshiva after finishing cheder. His parents hoped he would become a rabbi. From 1906 to 1909 he attended the Vilnius School of Drawing, and later studied briefly in Berlin. Between 1910 and 1916 he lived in Paris, where in 1913 he held his first solo exhibition. Zukerman spent the First World War in Petrograd and Moscow, and returned to Vilnius after the war. He was the first Jewish artist to hold solo exhibitions in Vilnius (1919) and Kaunas (1920). His works were exhibited in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Lviv, Petrograd and Moscow, as well as in Israel. Works from different periods reflect the influences of Realism, Post-Impressionism, French Expressionism and Fauvism.
Source: Ellex Valiunas (LAWIN until 2015) art album: STORIES OF LITVAK ART (2023). Compiler and author Vilma Gradinskaitė.
Born in 1890 near Vilnius, died in 1944 in Samarkand (Uzbekistan). From 1906 to 1910, he studied at the Vilnius Drawing School, later – in Berlin, circa 1913–1914 – at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Fernand Cormon’s study in Paris. His sponsor in Paris was Baron Rothschild who bought his works. From 1917 to 1919, Zukerman lived in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, later – in Vilnius. He was a member of various art societies of Vilnius, Saint Petersburg and Cracow. In 1919 and 1923–1927, he visited Jerusalem, and from there, travelled to Egypt and Europe. Features of impressionism and postimpressionism are predominant in his oeuvre. He painted landscapes, portraits, still lifes, interiors, and created drawings in Indian ink. In Paris, he created illustrations for the Jewish art magazine Machmadim, between 1917 and 1919, designed an album of Jewish folk art compiled by S. An-ski (unpublished) in Moscow, and illustrated the Yiddish children’s magazine Green Trees published in Vilnius. Solo exhibitions of his works were held in Paris, Vilnius, Moscow and Kaunas.
Source: Académie de Vilna: Vilniaus piešimo mokykla 1866-1915 / Vilnius drawing school: Exhibition Catalogue, Nacionalinė dailės galerija 2017 m. 4 d. - lapkričio 26 d., compiled by Jolanta Širkaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, p. 360.
Benzion Zukerman was born in the Vilnius province in a traditional shtetl, the 12-year-old Benzion Zukerman went to study in a Vilnius yeshiva after finishing cheder. His parents hoped he would become a rabbi. From 1906 to 1909 he attended the Vilnius School of Drawing, and later studied briefly in Berlin. Between 1910 and 1916 he lived in Paris, where in 1913 he held his first solo exhibition. Zukerman spent the First World War in Petrograd and Moscow, and returned to Vilnius after the war. He was the first Jewish artist to hold solo exhibitions in Vilnius (1919) and Kaunas (1920). His works were exhibited in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Lviv, Petrograd and Moscow, as well as in Israel. Works from different periods reflect the influences of Realism, Post-Impressionism, French Expressionism and Fauvism.
Source: Ellex Valiunas (LAWIN until 2015) art album: STORIES OF LITVAK ART (2023). Compiler and author Vilma Gradinskaitė.
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