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    Artist

  • Wachtel, Wilhelm, 1875-1952

    • Title

  • Jewish refugees

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 29.13" x 36.22" ; 74 x 92 cm

  • Date

    1937

  • Notes

    Title devised by cataloger

  • Summary

    Depicts a group of men, women, and children in a small space. Bundles and cases of their belongings litter the space, which some sit on or rest against. Most of them sleep while the central figure, a woman, looks directly at the viewer with a sleeping child in her lap.

  • Subject

    Jewish refugees, 1933-1945; Jews, Social life and customs

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

The realist painter and illustrator Wilhelm Wachtel was born in Lemberg (Lviv, Ukraine). He studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts under Leon Wyczółkowski and Leopold Löffler, and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Nikolaus Gysisa. Wachtel traveled to Vienna, Paris, and Palestine. He often depicted scenes or topics of Jewish life, and he was featured in a number of exhibits. Wachtel settled in Palestine in 1936, but he emigrated to the United States after the start of World War II; many of his works were lost during that time.

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Wachtel, Wilhelm: Jewish refugees, Leo Baeck Institute, 92.1.