Dimensions: 55 x 46 cm
Signed, dated and inscribed p.g.: 'L. Weissberg | St. Paul 1934'
on the reverse an oil landscape composition
Origin
collection of Aron Kupfer, France
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Léon Weissberg, Centre d'Art et de Culture, Espace Rachi, Paris, 1999.
Weissberg. Rétrospective 1924-1942, Galerie Mann, Paris, 1998
Literature
Ladia Harambourg, Lydie Lachenal, Leon Weissberg, catalog raisonné, Paris 2009, cat. no. 133 (ill.).
Jerzy Malinowski, École de Paris. Le groupe des Quatre, Paris 2000, p. 97.
Biography
Léon Weissberg studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Munich. In 1922 he made an artistic trip to Italy and Holland, and also stayed in Berlin. In 1923 he settled permanently in Paris, where a year later he exhibited his works at the Autumn Salon and the Tuileries Salon. He also exhibited his paintings at Galerie Zak and Galerie Manteau. After the outbreak of World War II, he left Paris; in 1941 he was imprisoned in the camps of Gurs and Drancy, and was later transported to the Majdanek camp, where he died. Jerzy Malinowski counts Léon Weissberg among the so-called 'Group of Four' alongside Sigmund Menkes, Alfred Aberdam and Joachim Weingart. These were artists who came from Lviv and held an exhibition at Jan Sliwinski's gallery in Paris in late 1925/26. Weissberg painted expressive landscapes, portraits, circus and genre scenes with Jewish themes, and city views.
