Oil on cardboard, signed lower right "E.Erb".
Dimensions with frame: 38x58 cm (27x47 cm)
Erno Izaak Erb (Lviv 1878 – 1942 Lviv) was an artist associated with the Lviv art scene; he lived in Lviv and Truskavets. He painted urban motifs, genre scenes, marketplaces, characteristic types of Ukrainian peasants and Jews, landscapes, and still lifes. He worked in pastels, watercolors, and oil paints. His oil paintings, characterized by a rich texture of thickly applied paint, were sometimes compared to the works of the German painter Max Liebermann. The artist exhibited repeatedly at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv and Kraków, as well as at the Zachęta in Warsaw. In 1929, he participated in the General National Exhibition in Poznań, and in 1932, in the Art Exhibition.
