The Shtetl Mir at Night.

LEHMANN, BERT.

Oil on canvas. Titled by artist on reverse. Framed.

As a child, Swedish-born Bert Lehmann (1916-2015) emigrated to Hamburg with his family of Orthodox German Jews - his father wanted to avail his sons of a Torah education - only to return to Sweden in 1933 with Hitler coming to power and the onset of religious persecution in Germany. After several years attending art school and participating in religious Zionist kibbutzim in Scandinavia, Lehmann decided to learn in the Yeshiva of Mir, not a simple endeavor for one with such a background. Later in life Lehmann decided to put the images and memories of the yeshiva and shtetl on canvas.