Jehuda Meier Epstein

สถานที่: Slonsk

เกิด: 1870

ความตาย: 1945

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Jehudo Meier Epstein was born into a poor family in Slonsk, Minsk, in the Russian Pale of Settlement. He received a thorough Jewish education, and in a memoir of 1929, ‘My Journey from East to West’, he particularly recalled the observance of the Jewish Holy Days in his childhood. He probably received his first drawing lessons in Vilnius, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (1888-1894), where he won many prizes. Epstein’s theme was eastern-European Jewish life, particularly figures from the Ghetto, as well as scenes from the Bible, landscapes and portraits. During the First World War he was an official Austrian war artist and in 1923 was made a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He set off with his wife Auguste Maria Epstein, née Schellnast, for a study trip to South Africa, which he extended on account of the commissions he was receiving there. He died on 16 November 1945 in Johannesburg.