Chaim Goldberg (March 20, 1917 – June 26, 2004) was a Polish-American artist,

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, and engraver. He is known for being a

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of Jewish life in the eastern European Polish villages (or '' shtetlekh'') like the one in his native Kazimierz Dolny in eastern Poland. He witnessed life and the recurring art colony atmosphere that he yearned for himself, and later undertook the mission of being a leading painter of

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-era art, which to the artist was seen as an obligation and art with a sense of profound mission. Following

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he emigrated to Israel and in 1967 to the United States. He and his family became US citizens in 1973. He died in

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in 2004.

Early life

Chaim Goldberg was born in a wooden clapboard house built by his father, a village cobbler. The house stood on Blotna Street as it was called at the time due to the fact that the creek would overflow and the road turned to a muddy area. As a young boy of 6 he gravitated to creating little figurines carved from stones which he gave away to his friends. Later he took up drawing and painting with basic shoemaker paints that he found at his father's workbench. He was the ninth child and the first boy after eight girls. He grew up in a religious home in Kazimierz Dolny. He would observe and draw the beggars and

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s who frequented his home as guests. His father would encourage their stays by letting it be known that the humble Goldberg home was open for those who could not pay for their night stay at any of the inns. They were surely welcome there. These characters became Chaim's early models. 1931-the morning CG left for krakow-web

Discovery & The Artist's First Shtetl period

On a crisp day in the fall of 1931, Dr. Saul Silberstein, a student of

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who was doing post doctorate work on his book, ''Jewish Village Mannerisms'' came into the Goldberg cobbler workshop to have his shoes repaired. As he waited for his shoes, he noticed the numerous art works that were attached to the wall with shoe nails and inquired who the artist was. Silberstein spent the entire night reviewing the young artist’s work. In the morning they went by foot to Lublin, a distance of 26 miles and Dr. Silberstein obtained the opinions of several respected individuals of the work by Chaim Goldberg. He then got him several small scholarships based on these letters of recommendation. This helped finance his early education at the "

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School for Fine Arts", in Kraków, from which he graduated in 1934. Dr. Silberstein was able to interest several other wealthy sponsors, such as the honorable Felix Kronstein, a judge, and a newspaper publisher who supported the artist through his graduation from the

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. At 17, he was the youngest to be admitted and studied under the Rector of the Academy and Professor

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, Kowarski,

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and . The beauty of Kazimierz Dolny had long ago been discovered by artists who had flocked there in large numbers over the years. Between the First World War and the Second World War, Kazimierz Dolny became known as an Art Colony as well. Prof.

had built a summer studio in the mountains and attracted his students to come down and paint outdoors. many of these artists as well as older ones painted the life they saw and the landscape. Chaim Goldberg became stimulated by this traffic of artists and began to do art as well. When he was discovered he had not attended any school or private lessons. He watched what the other artists did and was encouraged to do the same; set himself up with a home-made easel and paint outdoors. When he was discovered at the age of 14, his collection included landscapes as well as paintings of the vagabond types that frequented his home as guests.

The War Years 1939-1945

Chaim was conscripted into the Polish army in the fall of 1938. He was assigned to the artillery brigade that guarded Warsaw. After the Polish army surrendered to the Germans he was taken into custody as a POW (Prisoner of War) and held in a labor camp. He managed to escape and tried to rescue his parents and family who would not believe that the Germans had any intention of hurting the Jews. He could not motivate them to flee with him. So Chaim, his future wife, her sister and their parents became exiles escaping to Russia on foot. They kept moving north as the German armies advanced and ended up in Novosibirsk. Chaim married Rachel on April 15, 1944. They were able to return to Poland in 1946.

Emigration

Chaim Goldberg received a fellowship from the Polish Ministry of Culture to study at the Ecole de beaux Arts in Paris and in 1949 they returned to Poland. He worked on various commissions for the Polish Government and in 1955 made an application to be allowed to immigrate to Israel. The Goldberg family arrived in Israel in 1955 and began a new life. They stayed in Israel until 1967 where Chaim exhibited and sold his work to American, Canadian tourists and Israeli collectors. Despite that

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(near Tiberias) was the art colony of record, Chaim Goldberg's presence in northern Tel Aviv became a well known bit of art trivia to almost everyone and his studio drew from the wealthier tourists who frequented Hotel Ramat Aviv.

The Artist's Second Shtetl Period

Once ensconced in his large studio, Chaim Goldberg began to create large paintings that depicted Jewish life he remembered in his Shtetl of Kazimierz Dolny. During this period, of 1960-1966 he created some of his best known paintings, such as The Wedding (in the collection of the Spertus Museum, Chicago); The Shtetl (in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY);, Simchat Torah (in a private collection, NY); and Don't Forget.

Sculptures

Chaim Goldberg's insatiable desire to create art in many mediums knew no end. He engraved and sculpted in wood, stone, and metal. Here we see a 9 1/2 foot tall carving from oak, titled WE. He would stain his sculptures in various tones and have editions of 8 bronzes cast of each one he chose for editioning. His main advisor was his wife of 65 years, Rachel. 1995 - Chaim &Rachel in Boca - 1995

The United States

In 1967, Goldberg arrived in the United States, with a two-year business visa on an exhibition-tour and continued to paint, and create line engravings of his village characters, as well as sculpt. His and subject matter widened while living in

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which became one of his "themes." He and his family decided to become citizens of the United States in 1973.

Influences

Goldberg's "Culture Shock" series and other series based on real life and politics of the period as were the works of the series the "Mad Drivers." Some of his work dealt with his own dream sequences, such as the "Violin Thief Sequence" and the "Bird Dream Sequence". In 1974, Chaim attended a performance of Emmett Kelly, Jr.'s circus and began a series of drawings and other works on paper inspired by the circus theme. Then dance took center stage as his main subject. He also carved in wood. His body of work on the dance theme included paintings, watercolors, and sculpture carved in wood or made of aggregate

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. Goldberg continued line engraving and created a suite of 6 engravings titled, "Spring". In video taped interviews with the artist's son, Shalom, it becomes clear that Chaim Goldberg's career took two parallel paths of creation by virtue of his ability to compartmentalize his time and to the success of his Judaic theme to support him and his family throughout his life.

Holocaust theme

In 1944 while in exile in Russia, Goldberg began making an effort to document what he heard. He returned to Poland with his wife and son, Victor, and began to create over 150 works of art dealing with the Holocaust, many of which are in the permanent collection of several museums, namely the

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in Chicago.

Third Shtetl Period

In 1987, while working on the Holocaust theme, Goldberg returned to painting his beloved Kazimierz Dolny and the Jewish life in the village. This time his paintings were less lyrical and surreal, and instead were more 'story-telling' and documentary. After completing some fifty large canvases in 1997, at the age of 80, he was diagnosed with a disabling illness. He died on June 26, 2004 in

, aged 87.

Exhibitions

*1931 - "Polish Landscapes," Group Show, Kazimierz-Dolny, Poland *1934 - Studio Show, Kazmierz-Dolny, Poland *1936 - National Group Show, Warsaw, Poland *1937 - National Group Show, Warsaw, Poland ''(the artist, his future wife and her family were refugees in Siberia)'' *1946 - "Poland After World War II" solo show, Shtczechin, Poland *1947 - National Group Show,

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*1949 - National Group Show,

*1950 - National Group Show,

*1951 - National Group Show,

*1952 - National Group Show,

*1965 - One Man Show, Pioneer House, Giv'atayim, Israel *1966 - Retrospective Show, Museum Yad Labanim,

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) *1967 - One Man Show, LYS Gallery,

*1968 - One Man Show, Theodor Hertzl Institute,

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*1968 - One Man Show, Mixed Media Art Center,

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*1969 - One Man Show, Paul Kessler Art Gallery,

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*1970 - One Man Show, Paul Kessler Art Gallery,

*1971 - Large Retrospective Exhibit at the DeAndries Gallery, St' John's University,

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*1972 - One Man Show, Mixed Media, Lincoln Mall Art Center,

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*1972 - Group Show, Mixed Media,

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, Washington, D.C. *1973 - One Man Show, "Chaim Goldberg's Shtetl" (drawings, watercolors, sculptures, oil paintings and line engravings)

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, Hall of Graphic Arts, Washington, D. C. *1973 - Group Exhibit, "Jewish Motifs and Culture of the 20th Century,"

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, Offenbach, Germany *1974 - One Man Show, The Avila Art Center, Jewish Synagogue,

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*1977 - Group Show with the Texas Society of Sculptors,

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*1979 - One Man Show, Museum of Printing History,

*1982 - Group Exhibit, "Art of the Twentieth Century - A Revelation," Congregation Beth Israel,

*1985 - Group Exhibit, "Twenty-Sixth Invitational," Longview Museum of Art,

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*1994 - Group Exhibit, "Shtetl Life," the Nathan and Faye Hurvitz Collection, the

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Goldberg's "Marketplace", a hand-colored litho was on the cover of the exhibit catalog. *1997 - One Man Exhibit, "Chaim Goldberg at 80," Nathan B. Rosen Museum, Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center,

*1997 - One Man Exhibit, "Remembering the Shtetl - 75 Years of the Art of Chaim Goldberg," Texas Union Art gallery,

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*2002 - One Man Exhibit, "Oil Paintings of the Shtetl," Shir Art Gallery,

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*2003 - One Man Exhibit, "Landscapes and Observations," Shir Art Gallery,

*2004 - One Man Exhibit, "Engravings and Lithos," Shir Art Gallery,

*2009 - Group Exhibition, "Jewish Interwar Painters of Kazimierz Dolny," Poland,

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*2009 - One Man Exhibit "Remembering the Shtetl," National Bottle Museum, Balston Spa,

*2013 - One Man Show of over 160 drawings, watercolors and oil paintings from 1946 to 2000, "Chaim Goldberg Returns to Kazimierz Dolny," from 09.12.2013 to 31.08.2014 Muzeum Nadwiślański, Kazimierz Dolny,

*2015 - One Man Show of drawings and paintings KAMIENICA CELEJOWSKA / 11 grudnia 2015 – 3 kwietnia 2016 Muzeum Nadwiślański, Kazimierz Dolny,

*2016 - One Man Show of 75 drawings, watercolors and paintings Museum, I Remember,

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, Poland / May 8 - July 28 *2016 - One Man Show "I Remember The Shtetl" of 100 themed oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, plus 30 of his graphics; works in such mediums as engravings, etchings and wood engravings, at the Palace of Art in Kraków, September 15 - October 9

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, in the Jacob Reingold Pavilion, Riverdale, NY # POLIN,

, Poland # Muzeum Nadwiślański, Kazimierz Dolny,

List of Kazimierz-Dolny artists

The artists who frequented the Kazimierz-Dolny Art Colony were many, some of the Jewish artists were: # Maurycy (Mosze) Applebaum (1886-1931) # Eugeniusz Act (1899-1974) # Jozef Badower (1910-1941) # Henryk (Henoch) Barcinski (1896-1939) # Adolph Behrman (1876-1942) # Henryk Berlewi (1894-1967) # Salomon (Szulim) Bialogorski (1900-1942) # Arnold Blaufuks (1894-1943) # Sasza (Szaje) Blonder (1909-1949) # Icchak Wincenty Brauner (1887-1944) #

Aniela Cukier Aniela Cukier (1900–1944) was a Jewish painter who is identified as an Inter-War Polish artist. Cukier's village depictions were mostly executed in graphics, for which she is best known, especially her stylistic color woodcuts. She also pain ...

(1900-1944) # Bencion Cukierman (1890-1944) # Samuel Cygler (1898-1943) # Herszel Cyna (1911-1942) # Henryk (Chaim) Cytryn (1911-1943) # Jakub Cytryn (1909-1943) # Rachel Diament (1920-2003) # Boas Dulman (1900-1942) # Samuel Finkelstein (1890-1943) # Abraham Frydman (1906-1941) # Feliks Frydman (1897-1942) # Jozef Mojzesz Gabowicz (1862-1939) # Izydor Goldhuber-Czaj (1896-1942) # Dawid (Dionizy) Grieffenberg (1909-1942) # Michal Grusz (1911-1943) # Izaak Grycendler (1908-1944) # Chaim Hanft (1899-1951) # Adam Herszaft (1886-1942) # Elzbieta Hirszberzanka (1899-1942) # Ignacy Hirszfang (1903-1943) # Gizela Hufnagel (1903-1997) # Marcin Kitz (1891-1943) # Natan Korzen (1895-1941) # Jozef Kowner (1895-1967) # Szymon Kratka (1884-1960) # Izaak Krzeczanowski (1910-1941) # Chaim Lajzer (1893-1942) # Natalia Landau (1907-1943) # Henryk Lewensztadt (1893-1962) # Mary Litauer (Schneiderowa) (1900-1942) # Jozef Majzels (1911-1943) # Arieh Merzer (1910–1974) # Stella Amelia Miller (1910- ? ) # Maurycy Minkowski (1881-1930) # Abraham Neuman (1873-1942) # Szlomo Nussbaum (1906-1946) # Abraham Ostrzega (1889-1942) # Samuel Puterman (1901-1955) # Henryk Rabinowicz (1890-1942) # Stanislawa Reicher (1889-1943) # Bernard Rolnicki (1885-1942) # Roman Rozental (1897-1962) # Mojzesz Rynecki (1885-1942) # The Seidenbeutel brothers: ## Efraiim Seidenbeutel (1902-1945) ## Jozef Seidenbeutel (1894-1923) ## Menashe Seidenbeutel (1902-1945) # Efraiim &

Gela Seksztajn Gela Seksztajn (1907–1943; also known as Gele Seckstein) was a Polish-Jewish artist and painter. She is known mostly for her portraits and other paintings hidden within the Ringelblum Archive, in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. The pain ...

(1907-1943) # Marcel Słodki (1892-1943) # Arieh Sperski (1902-1943) # Marek Szapiro (1884-1942) #

Natan Spigel Natan Spigel (also: Nathan, Szpigiel/Spiegel/Szpigel) (1892–1942) was a Jewish painter born in Poland.http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/lodz/noted.htm, Shtetlinks, Noted Citizens of Lodz, Szpigiel (SPIEGEL), Natan (1900-1943), Retrieved Febru ...

(1900-1942) # Jozef Tom (1886-1962) #

Feliks Topolski Feliks Topolski RA (14 August 1907 – 24 August 1989) was a Polish expressionist painter and draughtsman working primarily in the United Kingdom. Biography Feliks Topolski was born on 14 August 1907 in Warsaw, Poland. He studied in the Acade ...

(1907-1989) # Symcha Trachtner (1893-1942) # Maurycy Trębacz (1861-1941) # Tadeusz Trebacz (1910-1945) # Izrael Tykocinski (1895-1942) # Jakub Weinles (1870-1938) # Wladyslaw Weintraub (Chaim Wof) (1891-1942) # Israel Szmuel (Szmul) Wodnicki (1901-1971) # Pinkus Zelman (1907-1936) # Izaak Zajdler (1905-1943) # Leon Zysberg (1901-1942) # Fiszel Zylberberg (1909-1942).

Notes

References and Sources (Books and Exhibit Catalogs)

# # Darmon, Adrian Around Jewish Art: A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors and Photographers, Carnot Press, April 2004, # Brody, Moskowitz-, Cynthia -Bittersweet Legacy, Creative Responses to the Holocaust, University Press of America, Inc. Lanham, Maryland 20706 (Pages 268-269) # Dr. Waldemar Odorowski; Dorota Święcicka-Odorowska; Dorota Seweryn-Puchalska; Stanisław Święcicki; Jarosław Moździoch, In Kazimierz the Vistula River spoke to them in Yiddish, Published by the Muzeum Nadwiślańskie, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 2007. # Del Calzo, Nick, Rockford, Renee, Raper J., Linda – The Triumphant Spirit, published by the Triumphant Spirit Foundation, 1997. # Helzel Florence, B., Shtetl life: the Nathan and Faye Hurvitz Collection, Judah L. Magnes Museum, 1993 # Queens Council for the Arts, Chaim Goldberg: Israeli Artist, 1971 # Goldberg, Shalom, Chaim Goldberg: My Shtetl Kazimierz Dolny, SHIR Press, 2007 # Harris, Elizabeth, Chaim Goldberg's Shtetl, exhibit catalog published by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1973. # Lubieniecki, Krzysztof, Polish Engravers, by General Books LLC, 1983 # Chaim Goldberg. Powrót do Kazimierza nad Wisłą / Chaim Goldberg. Kazimierz Revisited. Editor and Contributor Dr. Waldemar Odorowski, published by Muzeum Nadwiślańskie w Kazimierzu Dolnym - December, 2013 Brief description of the publication by the Museum: " Katalog wystawy o tym samym tytule, która prezentowana jest w nowej siedzibie Muzeum Nadwiślańskiego w Kazimierzy Dolnym. Wydawnictwo prezentuje życie i twórczość Chaima Goldberga, który urodził się w Kazimierzu w 1917 roku w biednej rodzinie tutejszego szewca. Dzięki odkryciu jego talentu przez dr. Saula Silbersteina i udzieleniu wsparcia finansowego młody artysta miał szansę studiować w prywatnej Szkole L. Mehofferowej w Krakowie, a nastepnie w Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie. Tutaj trafił pod skrzydła prof. Tadeusza Pruszkowskiego, który był nota bene twórcą kazimierskiej kolonii artystycznej. Los sprawił, że Chaim po ucieczce przed Zagładą nigdy do Kazimierza już nie wrócił, ale miasteczko ciągle było obecne w jego twórczości. Obrazy kronikarza kazimierskiego sztetla pokazują zarówno życie codzienne jego mieszkańców, jak i dni świąteczne. To niezwykła opowieść o świecie, który odszedł na zawsze. Katalog wzbogacają eseje specjalistów, w tym syna artysty Shaloma Goldberga."

Bibliography of Articles

# Aloisio, Julie, "Chaim Goldberg's Art Celebrates Life," The Villager, 1988, Miami, Florida # Alyagon, Ofra, "Chaim Goldberg The Artist," (Life and Problems, July 1966, Paris, France # Amazallag, Giselle, "A Visit with the Artist Chaim Goldberg," Dimensions Magazine, February/March 1997, Boca Raton, Florida # Avidar, Tamar, "Chaim Goldberg Does Not Forget," (Davar Hashavua, 1965, Tel Aviv, Israel # Chir, Myriam, "Chaim Goldberg - Painter and Sculptor," (L'information D'Israel, Feb. 1965, Tel Aviv, Israel # Diamonstein, Barbara, "Chaim Goldberg - From Exile to Genius,"

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, June, 2002, USA # Dolbin, B.F., "Chaim Goldberg - The Sholom Aleichem of the Arts," Autlan, July, 1967, New York, NY # Dluznowski-Dunow, M., "Important Exhibit of Chaim Goldberg," ''

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'', 1967, New York, NY # Dluznowski-Dunow, M., "The Painter and Sculptor Chaim Goldberg," Culture and Life, Polish language publication, 1967, New York, NY. # Evremond-Saint, "Chaim Goldberg," Le Courier des Arts, June 29, 1967, New York, NY # Frank, M., "Chaim Goldberg in the Smithsonian National Museum," The Forward, April, 1973, New York, NY # Friedman, Sousanna, "A Visit with Chaim Goldberg," The Bulletin - American Jewish Libraries, 1978 # Kantz, Shimon, "The Artist Chaim Goldberg," Yiddishe Shriftin, Oct., 1954, Warsaw, Poland # Hall, D., "Goldberg at the Caravan," Park East Nov. 1st, 1973, New York, NY # Kiel, C., "The Dynamic Jewish Artist Chaim Goldberg," The Forward, 1987, New York, NY # Luden, Itzchak, "Chaim Goldberg in the Smithsonian National Museum," The Forward, April 1973, New York, NY # Massney, P., "Proud Moment," The Long Island Press, March 31, 1971, NY # Paris, J., "Chaim Goldberg to Exhibit Art," The Long Island Press, March 28, 1971, NY # Paris, J., "Exhibit Aides Council Reach a Goal," The Long Island Press, April 5, 1971, NY # Robak, Kazimierz, "I Left My Heart There," Gazeta Antykwaryczna, Part 1 of 3, October 2000, Kraków, Poland # Robak, Kazimierz, "I Left My Heart There," Gazeta Antykwaryczna, Part 2 of 3, November 2000, Kraków, Poland # Robak, Kazimierz, "I Left My Heart There," Gazeta Antykwaryczna, Part 3 of 3, December 2000, Kraków, Poland # Robak, Kazimierz, "Kuzmir in Chaim Goldberg’s painting," Spotkania z Zabytkami, Vol. 3 (253), March 2008. 12-15. Warsaw, Poland # Rogers, M., "Goldberg Pursues New Directions," Houston Chronicle, Oct. 12th, 1977, Houston, TX # Samuels, J., "An Artist and His Wife," (''

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'', March, 1978, Houston, TX) # Samsot-Hawk, Kathleen, "Chaim Goldberg," (Art Voices, November/December 1977) # Scott, Paul, "Chaim Goldberg: An Artist Reborn," (Southwest Art Magazine, July/August 1975, Houston, TX) # Shirey, david,
Chaim Goldberg's Art Shown in Queens
" (New York Times, March, 19th 1971, NY) # Shmulevitz, I., "The Exhibit of the Artist Chaim Goldberg," (The Forward, March 13, 1971, NY) # Shneiderman, Emil, "The Art of Chaim Goldberg," (The Day Journal, July 2, 1967, New York, NY) # Shneiderman, Emil, "Chaim Goldberg's Art on Exhibit in Queens," (The Day Journal, March 14, 1971, New York, NY) # Staingart, T., "An Exhibition of Paintings by Chaim Goldberg," (The Forward, 1967, New York, NY) # Taube, H., "The Lost World Recaptured in Art," (The Baltimore Jewish Times, April 1973, Baltimore, MD) # Tennenbaum, Shea, "Chaim Goldberg, The Artist From Kazimierz-Dolny," (The Voice, October 10, 1967, New York, NY) # Tennenbaum, Shea, "Chaim Goldberg's Jews Live Forever," (The Voice, October 1967, Paris, France) # The Forward, "Chaim Goldberg's Art Exhibited at the Hertzel Institute," (The Forward, April 12, 1968, New York, NY) # The Forward, "Leivik House in Tel Aviv Receives Gift from Acknowledged Artist Chaim Goldberg," (The Forward, April 12, 1970, New York, NY) # The Buffalo Jewish Review, "The Artist Goldberg Exhibits," (December 6, 1970, Buffalo, NY) # The Houston Chronicle, "Central Library to Unveil A New Goldberg Sculpture," (October 31, 1980, Houston, TX) # Waisman, Gavriel, "The Artist Chaim Goldberg," (The Day, May 1966, Tel Aviv, Israel) # Waisman, Gavriel, "The Artist Chaim Goldberg," (Life and Problems, July 1966, Paris, France) # Zonshain, Jacob, "The Prolific Artist," (Folkshtime, November 15, 1949, Warsaw Poland)

Catalogues Raisonné Series

Vol. #1 - Chaim Goldberg’s Shtetl: The Drawings, series name: The Complete Works of Chaim Goldberg, by Shalom Goldberg, Bayglow Press, January 2015, Vol. #9 - Chaim Goldberg’s Dance, series name: The Complete Works of Chaim Goldberg, by Shalom Goldberg, Bayglow Press, January 2015 Vol. #10 - Chaim Goldberg’s Israeli Landscapes, series name: The Complete Works of Chaim Goldberg, by Shalom Goldberg, Bayglow Press, December 2014, Vol. #11 - Chaim Goldberg’s American Landscapes and Florals, series name: The Complete Works of Chaim Goldberg, by Shalom Goldberg, Bayglow Press, December 2014,

Illustrated Books

* Friedlander, Albert, ''Out of the Whirlwind'', UAHC Press, 1999. * Roseman, Kenneth, "Until the Messiah Comes", Do It Yourself Jewish Adventure Series, - Front cover illustration, detail from his painting titled, Marketplace. * Shnayderman, Shemu’el-Leyb, ''The River Remembers'', AAH Publishers, 1970, OCLC Number: 19302464, Translated into English as The River Remembers, (New York : Horizon Press, 1978

Limited Edition Portfolios

* "Chaim Goldberg's Shtetl", a portfolio of 10 engravings and intaglio prints (mixed media of etching and some engraving) created earlier as separate editions, published in 1973 to commemorate Chaim Goldberg's One Man Show at the Smithsonian's newly inaugurated Hall of Graphic Arts. Portfolio was published by Shalom Goldberg, the artist's son. It consists of the ten works of art held by a double, folded sheet of same Arches paper, and protective glassine sheet, and two original drawings. The edition size was 10 portfolios with ten impressions each. Each impression was printed by had, by the artist in his New York studio in Queens, using a Rembrandt Etching press. The impressions are done in a variety of ink colors, ranging from Lamp Black, to Cerrulian Blue mixed with Prussian Blue and a variety of Sepia shades. Each edition from which the ten identically numbered sets were pulled, were executed in editions of 200 signed and numbered impressions, thus making the portfolio extremely rare. On top of the rarity by the small set of 10, each portfolio cover sheet includes two original illustrations in pen and ink by Chaim Goldberg. ''Included in each portfolio set are the following works:'' # Dreamer - Line Engraving # To the Unknown - Intaglio # The Blacksmith - Intaglio # Moving Day - Intaglio # Two Hasidic Dancers - Etching # Seven Hasidic Dancers - Etching # The Cheder - Intaglio # Duet - Intaglio # Purim - Intaglio # The Hora - Intaglio

References

* Book: Out of the Whirlwind, by Friedlander, Albert, COVER: by Chaim Goldberg UAHC Press, 1999.

External links

Official website dedicated to Chaim Goldberg

In the Smithsonian Archive
*
Exhibition titled Chaim Goldberg Returns to Kazimierz Dolny
Muzeum Nadwishlanskie December 9 - 2013 to August 31 -2014. {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldberg, Chaim 1917 births 2004 deaths People from Puławy County Polish emigrants to Israel Israeli emigrants to the United States Jewish painters Jewish sculptors Polish engravers 20th-century engravers 21st-century engravers École des Beaux-Arts alumni Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni 20th-century Polish sculptors Polish male sculptors 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Polish male painters Polish military personnel of World War II Polish prisoners of war World War II prisoners of war held by Germany Escapees from German detention

Early life

Discovery & The Artist's First Shtetl period

The War Years 1939-1945

Emigration

The Artist's Second Shtetl Period

Sculptures

The United States

Influences

Holocaust theme

Third Shtetl Period

Exhibitions

Collections

List of Kazimierz-Dolny artists

Notes

References and Sources (Books and Exhibit Catalogs)

Bibliography of Articles

Catalogues Raisonné Series

Illustrated Books

Limited Edition Portfolios

Further reading

References

External links