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Jakob Eisenscher

Jakob Eisenscher was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina in 1896 As a young man, Eisenscher attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Eisenscher immigrated to France in the early 1930s. He worked in Paris for five years, during which he was exposed to Cubism and became heavily influenced by the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. His paintings also included visions of the Jewish "shtetls" in Eastern Europe, markets, synagogues and scenes of Israel and its people. His series "Gate" (1969) received much positive attention. Jakob Eisenscher died in 1980.
Jakob Eisenscher was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina in 1896 As a young man, Eisenscher attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Eisenscher immigrated to France in the early 1930s. He worked in Paris for five years, during which he was exposed to Cubism and became heavily influenced by the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. His paintings also included visions of the Jewish "shtetls" in Eastern Europe, markets, synagogues and scenes of Israel and its people. His series "Gate" (1969) received much positive attention. Jakob Eisenscher died in 1980.
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