Laborers in Palestine

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 365
WACHTEL, WILHELM.

Laborers in Palestine

Variously worn, upper left portion of canvas torn 22 x 29 inches

Haifa, n.d:

Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,800
“Wilhelm Wachtel was born in Lvov in 1875. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He travelled throughout Europe as well as Palestine, where he settled in 1936. Initially he painted symbolic Jewish scenes, portraits, and landscapes, later in a postimpressionistic style. He died in the United States in 1942.”