Henryk Hochman
Henryk Herszel Hochman (born 1879 or 1881 in Lublin - died 1942 or 1943 in Baczków near Bochnia, dates vary) was a Polish Jewish sculptor from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He was a student of Paweł Rosen in Warsaw, Konstanty Laszczka while in Kraków (1900-1906), and Auguste Rodin in France.
Work[]
Admission of Jews to Poland in the Middle Ages by Henryk Hochman, prob. 1907. Installed in 1996, Kazimierz Town Hall in Cracow.
Hochman specialized in figurative art such as sculpted portraits, the heads, and busts. Hochman is known for his bas-relief bronze entitled "Kol Nidre" (1907) in the former Town Hall of Kazimierz. He worked with marble, bronze, terracotta and majolica. During the Holocaust Henryk Hochman was deported to Bochnia Ghetto and murdered.[1][2][3][4] Many of his works were lost.
References[]
- ^ Valley, Eli (1999). The great Jewish cities of Central ... - Google Books. ISBN 9780765760005. Retrieved 2009-11-14 – via Google Books.
- ^ Darmon, Adrian M. (2003). Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie ... - Google Books. ISBN 9782848550114. Retrieved 2009-11-14 – via Google Books.
- ^ Malarstwo i rzeźba Żydów Polskich w XIX i XX wieku, Volume 1, by Jerzy Malinowski
- ^ The Jews of Cracow by Eugeniusz Duda, 1999, 127 pages
- Henryk Herszel Hochman, "Kol Nidre" (bas-relief, 1907) former Town Hall of Kazimierz
- Henryk Hochman, "Two girls", glazed ceramics, Auction House Rempex. Warsaw, 2005[permanent dead link]
Categories:
- 1879 births
- 1943 deaths
- Polish civilians killed in World War II
- Artists from Kraków
- 20th-century Polish sculptors
- 20th-century male artists