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632 - WILHELM (ZVE'EV) WACHTEL_x001D_ Lviv, Ukraine 1875 – 1942 USA Seated Girl. A pensive young woman; a ghostly figure in the background. Oil on painting board, 1917. Signed and dated “917.” On the reverse, on a fragment of an old label, partially illegible inscription: “...Schulamit/...or Wachtel/...Zaduma,” as well as a drawing in blue crayon (a standing man seen from behind, in front of a mirror?). On the frame is a label from Leon Probst’s paper store, Lemberg. 64.5 x 48.5 cm. With tiny holes in the corners. Wachtel was a Jewish-Polish artist who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Leon Wyczókowski and Leopold Löffler, and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Nikolaus Gysis. He also spent time in Vienna and Paris and frequently depicted scenes from Jewish life and Jewish themes. His work was featured in numerous exhibitions. In 1936, he settled in Palestine, but after the outbreak of World War II, he emigrated to the United States, where he died. Some of his works have been lost since that time. Framed. [bg]
WILHELM (ZVE'EV) WACHTEL_x001D_ Lviv, Ukraine 1875 – 1942 USA Seated Girl. A pensive young woman; a ghostly figure in the background. Oil on painting board, 1917. Signed and dated “917.” On the reverse, on a fragment of an old label, partially illegible inscription: “...Schulamit/...or Wachtel/...Zaduma,” as well as a drawing in blue crayon (a standing man seen from behind, in front of a mirror?). On the frame is a label from Leon Probst’s paper store, Lemberg. 64.5 x 48.5 cm. With tiny holes in the corners. Wachtel was a Jewish-Polish artist who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Leon Wyczókowski and Leopold Löffler, and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Nikolaus Gysis. He also spent time in Vienna and Paris and frequently depicted scenes from Jewish life and Jewish themes. His work was featured in numerous exhibitions. In 1936, he settled in Palestine, but after the outbreak of World War II, he emigrated to the United States, where he died. Some of his works have been lost since that time. Framed. [bg]