Recha welcoming her father (detail).
Maurycy Gottlieb · 1867
Why it's great
A woman greets her father at the door in a warm, joyful family scene. Maurycy Gottlieb, a Jewish painter from Galicia, studied under the great Polish painter Jan Matejko. He painted this when he was only in his early twenties; he died at 22, but left behind a few remarkable paintings.
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.
