Chenoch Lieberman Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1900 - d. 1976

Chenoch Lieberman (1900-76) was a Chassidic artist whose work in later years has become enormously popular, especially throughout the world of Lubavitch. Born in Polotsk, Russia, into the Futerfass family, long-standing Lubavitcher Chassidim going back generations, Lieberman was a student at the Lubavitch Yeshiva in White Russia. As with so many Jewish families of that time and place, harsh circumstances forced the family to move and in 1916, they settled in Moscow. There, Lieberman's impulses led him to form an artistic relationship with the Russian sculptor Innocento Zhukov who subsequently arranged entrance for the Chassidic artist to study in the Moscow Academy of Arts. Lieberman's studies culminated in a year-long painting expedition to Birobidzhan, in the Soviet Far East, where he captured a range of subjects from Chassidim learning Torah to Siberian laborers. Returning to Moscow, Lieberman was employed by the government as a commercial artist until the outbreak of war, whereupon he was conscripted to join the Red Army.