Lazar Krestin (10 September 1868,
Kaunas
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– 28 February 1938, Vienna) was an artist famous in the
German art world for Judaic
genre scenes and his many sober portraits of
Eastern European Jews. He was also a noted
Zionist.
His father was a
Talmud teacher. His first lessons were at the drawing school in
Vilnius, followed by studies at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and he was one of the most prominent students of
Isidor Kaufmann
Isidor Kaufmann ( hu, Kaufman(n) Izidor, he, איזידור קאופמן; 22 March 1853 in Arad – 1921 in Vienna) was an Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to genre painting, he traveled throughout Easte ...
. He worked in Munich, Vienna and
Odessa
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before going to
Jerusalem in 1910 at the request of
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design founder,
Boris Schatz. He later returned to Vienna and is buried in the
Zentralfriedhof.
Sources
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Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950, Bd. 4 (Lfg. 18, 1968)
S. 262
External links
ArtNet: More works by Krestin.Works by Krestin
@ the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
Works by Krestin
@ the Jewish Museum, Berlin
1868 births
1938 deaths
19th-century Lithuanian painters
20th-century Lithuanian painters
Jewish painters
20th-century Lithuanian Jews
Austrian Jews
Austrian people of Lithuanian descent
Artists from Kaunas
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