page_title: Samuel Hirszenberg
section_title: Art career
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Hirszenberg / Art career
caption_attribution_description: English: The last prayer (1897) by Samuel Hirszenberg, Museum of Art, Ein Harod עברית: המתפלל האחרון (1897) מאת שמואל הירשנברג, אוסף המשכן לאמנות, עין חרוד
context_page_description: Samuel Hirszenberg was a Polish-Jewish realist and later symbolist painter active in the late 19th and early 20th century.
context_section_description: His first major work to attract attention was Yeshiva (1887). After an exhibition at the Kunstverein Munich (1889), he showed at the art exhibition in Paris and was awarded a silver medal. In Paris, he completed his artistic training at the Académie Colarossi.
  In 1891, Hirszenberg returned to Poland. In 1893 he resettled in his hometown of Łódź. While the images of the early years, like the paintings Talmudic Studies, Sabbathnachmittag, Uriel Acosta, and The Jewish cemetery show a certain kinship with the Jewish genre painting by Leopold Horowitz, Isidor Kaufmann, and Maurycy Gottlieb, his later works can be rather assigned to the symbolism. Themes of the "tearful" Jewish history came to the fore. Noteworthy are the three most famous pictures of this period: The Wandering Jew (1899), Exile (1904), and Czarny Sztandar / Black Flag (1905). 
  In 1900, after working on a large painting, "The Eternal Jew," for over four years, it  was exhibited in the Paris Salon. Disappointed by the poor response in Paris  Munich and Berlin, he retired for health reasons. 
  In 1901, he went for a year on a trip to Italy. In 1904, Hirszenberg moved to Kraków. In 1907, he immigrated to Israel and began to work as a lecturer at the newly founded Bezalel School in Jerusalem, headed by Boris Schatz. After a short and intense creative period, he died in 1908 in Jerusalem.
caption: "The Last Prayer," Hirszenberg, Ein Harod
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