WILHELM WACHTEL (POLISH 1875-1952)

WILHELM WACHTEL (POLISH 1875-1952)
Jerusalem , 1924
oil on paper laid on board
25.5 x 36 cm (10 x 14 1/8 in.) [sight]
signed, dated and titled lower right

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WILHELM WACHTEL
Wilheim Wachtel was born in 1875 in Lviv, Ukraine. Jewish-Polish painter, graphic artist, illustrator and representative of Realism. He studied at the Cracow School of Fine Arts under the supervision of Leon Wycz�_kowski and Leopold L�ffler , and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Nikolaus Gysis . He often traveled to Vienna , Paris , to Palestine , where he settled in 1936. After the outbreak of World War II, he emigrated to the United States.
He painted oil, drew pastels, dealt with graphics created primarily genre scenes on Jewish themes, including after returning from a trip to Palestine, in 1922, he made a series of paintings depicting the difficult life of Jewish settlers (HeHalutz), created lyrical portraits, biblical themes, illustrated books. He exhibited a lot, and in 1935 he had an individual exhibition at the Zach_ta Gallery in Warsaw, where he showed nearly 50 works. Most of his works were lost during World War II.
He died tragically in a car accident in the United States.