Christ preaching at Capernaum
Maurycy Gottlieb · 1878
Why it's great
Jesus speaks to a crowd in Capernaum, with Jewish listeners gathered around him. Maurycy Gottlieb, a Jewish painter, imagined Jesus as a Jewish teacher in a Jewish town. He painted it in the last year of his life. It shows how a Jewish artist could look at a Gospel story as part of his own culture.
Where to see it
📍 National Museum in WarsawWarsaw, Poland
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Maurycy Gottlieb was born in Drohobych, in Galicia, to a Jewish family and studied art in Kraków, Vienna and Munich. He was a student of the great painter Jan Matejko and painted striking pictures of Jewish life and history. He died in Kraków in 1879 at only 22. His few works are treasured today.
