oil/fiberboard
Dimensions: 61 x 50 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'MUSZKA 62'
on the reverse and on the frame hardly legible stamps and descriptions
Origin:
private collection, United States
DESA Unicum, January 2018
institutional collection, Warsaw
Literature
Lili Berger, Adam Muszka, Warsaw 1970, p. nlb. (59, ill.)
Biography
He came from a traditional Jewish family. His grandfather was the famous Piotrkow cantor Akiva Muszka-Ofter, his father was also a cantor. Muszka studied in a cheder and then in Warsaw at the School of Commerce, while also studying at the Municipal School of Decorative Arts and Painting in 1937-38. He survived the war in Tashkent. After returning to the country, he took up a job and was active in artistic life. He settled in Lodz. In 1955 he joined the Association of Polish Artists. In addition to painting and drawing, he designed posters, created wall compositions, and is also the author of a monument commemorating the 200,000 victims of the Lodz ghetto at the Jewish cemetery on Bracka Street in Lodz (1956). He participated in the painting exhibition of the series "Polish Plastic Work in the 15th Anniversary of the Polish People's Republic" and in many other exhibitions, including in London, Paris, New York, Tel-Aviv. In the 1960s he emigrated to France. He mainly took up Jewish subjects - physiognomic types, city views, genre scenes. He was called "Polish Chagall." His works can be found in the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Wroclaw, the Museum of Art in Lodz, the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Emigration Archives at the University Museum in Torun and in many private collections.
