Tikun Hanefesh By Lazar Krestin 1868 - 1938

Description
Signed and dated 900 (upper right)

Technique
Oil on panel

Date Created
1900

Dimensions
17 x 12.5 cm

Provenance
Private Collection, Herzliya

Condition
Minimal frame abrasions, otherwise good.

Notes
In an original gilt frame with maker's Viennese label on the reverse.

Biography
Lazar Krestin (1868-1938), Russian Jewish painter. Born in Kovno in 1868. Renowned for his Judaic genre scenes and portraits of Eastern European Jews. Student of Isidor Kaufmann. Worked in Munich, Vienna and Odessa before coming to Jerusalem in 1910 at the request of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design founder, Boris Schatz. Died in Vienna in 1938.