Eric Goldberg (1890–1969) was a

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painter, born in 1890 in Berlin, Germany. No was influenced by the art of

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at an early age. He studied at

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(1906–10) and

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under Tony Robert-Fleury,

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and

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, and taught at the

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and, later, the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts,

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(1911–1915, returning to teach again in then British Mandate of Palestine from 1924 to 1926). He began working in

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in 1928, and soon after began favouring the landscapes of

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's Gaspésie region as subjects. In 1939, Goldberg became a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society (in French, ''Société d'art contemporain''), a group of Canadian artists intent on sensitizing the public to modern art. His work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, and North America. He married Quebec-born Regina Seiden (1897) - a well-respected artist in her own right - who studied under the Canadian traditionalist masters

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and Maurice Cullen. Goldberg was also a member of the Eastern Group of Painters, a group founded in Montreal to counter the nationalism of the Canadian Group of Painters. He was well represented by Max Stern's Dominion Gallery in Montreal. Goldberg died in

in 1969.

Selected collections

* National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa *

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National Archives, Montreal * Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, Brampton *

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, Jerusalem *

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec ( en, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is situated in Battlefield Park and is a complex consisting of four bui ...

, Quebec The archives at the National Gallery of Canada also has a fonds including roughly 180 of his works, separate from the main art collection.

References

* ''Dominion Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Canada Library & Archives''

External links

National Gallery of Canada
(Eric Goldberg)
Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives
special collection)

at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Westmount Historical Association
(Eric Goldberg archive) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldberg, Eric 1890 births 1969 deaths Académie Julian alumni 20th-century Canadian painters Canadian male painters Jewish Canadian artists Jewish painters Painters from Montreal Painters from Berlin 20th-century German Jews German emigrants to Canada Canadian alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts Academic staff of the Prussian Academy of Arts 20th-century Canadian male artists Jews and Judaism in Montreal