HANEMAN, MAX (1882-1943)

"Grób Absalom (Tomb Of Absalom, Jerusalem)" (c.1921)
Oil on board
35 x 24.5cm
Signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
Haneman was a respected and accomplished Polish-Jewish Impressionist. He studied Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow & Warsaw, before debuting his first solo exhibition in Łódź in 1921; an exhibition of Jewish paintings that were inspired by a trip to Palestine and depicted oriental, Jewish and Christian themes. He was a member of the "Muza" Association of Jewish Artists in Warsaw and the Podhale Artists Association. He exhibited at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in 1927 in the Society of the Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv, in 1928 to the Society in Krakow. He held several large exhibitions locally and abroad until the outbreak of World War II, where he was captured by the Nazis, stripped of his possessions and lured to the Łódź ghetto, where it is thought he died. Haneman's works can be seen at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, at the Tatra Museum and in numerous private collections. This historically important oil painting was exhibited in his first exhibition in 1921,