Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Profile: Maurycy Gottlieb


http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=867

I discovered Maurycy when looking for pictures of the Wandering Jew. The above is a Gottlieb's self-portrait as the character...

2 comments:

  1. Too bad this guy killed himself at such a young age, his paintings were really nice. Thanks for introducing me to his work, great profile!

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  2. Wow, he looks kind of "Spanish" in his self-portait from the Yom Kippur scene; any possibility he's part Sephardim?

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