Erno Erb, Marktszene ihre Produkte anbieten und kaufende Frauen auf einen kleinen Platz, impasto genre painting in friendly colours, oil on card, c. 1940, signed "E. Erb" lower left, craquelure and minor losses in the margins, framed, folded dimensions c. 26 x 36 cm. Artist information: Ernő (Isaak) Erb (* 1878 or 1890 in Lemberg; † 1943 benda) was a Polish painter of Jewish descent. Ernö Erb painted as an autodidact, but was recognised as a fully-fledged artist. He mostly created oil paintings, rarely watercolours and pastels. Erb painted genre scenes from the everyday life of the Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian inhabitants of Lviv, still lifes and landscapes. He showed his works at exhibitions in Lviv and Krakow as well as at the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Ernő Erb also created murals in synagogues as well as stage sets and costumes for vaudeville theatres. Erb spent almost his entire life in Lviv and the nearby spa town of Truskavets. After the outbreak of the Second World War and the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland, Lviv was annexed to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on 22 September 1939. After "Operation Barbarossa" and the invasion of German forces on 30 June 1941, the persecution of Lviv's Jewish population began. Ernő Erb was imprisoned in the Lviv-Janowska forced labour camp and died there in 1943. His works survived the war in the collections of Polish friends and are now in the collections of the National Museum in Krakow, the Lviv National Art Gallery and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, among others. Source: Wikipedia