Meditation Before Prayer.

MARKOWICZ, ARTUR.

Pastel on paper. Signed by artist in pencil lower right. Framed.

Artur Markowicz (1872-34) was a Jewish realist painter and graphic artist born in Cracow, Poland. From 1896 until 1903 he lived and studied art in Munich, Berlin, and in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, as well as traveled to Jerusalem in 1907–08. His Jewish scenes and character-studies show a unique originality of his style influenced by symbolism with elements of expressionism. Markowicz died in Cracow in and is buried at the local New Jewish Cemetery.