Samuel Hirszenberg Art for Sale at Auction

Painter

Samuel Hirszenberg (also Schmul Hirschenberg) (Lódz, February 22, 1865 – September 15, 1908, Jerusalem) was a Polish-Jewish realist and later symbolist painter active in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Szmul (Samuel) Hirszenberg was born in 1865, the eldest son of a weaving mill worker in Polish Lódz. Against the will of his father, but thanks to the financial assistance of a doctor, he chose to be an artist. At the age of 15 he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he was heavily influenced by the realistic painting of Jan Matejko.[1]

After two years of training in Kraków, he continued his studies from 1885-1889 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich.