Chaim Goldberg
Polish artist
Died when: 87 years 98 days (1047 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Chaim Goldberg (March 20, 1917 – June 26, 2004) was a Polish-American artist, painter, sculptor, and engraver.He is known for being a chronicler of Jewish life in the eastern European Polish villages (or shtetlekh) like the one in his native Kazimierz Dolny in eastern Poland.
He witnessed life and the recurring art colony atmosphere that he yearned for himself, and later undertook the mission of being a leading painter of Holocaust-era art, which to the artist was seen as an obligation and art with a sense of profound mission.
Following World War II he emigrated to Israel and in 1967 to the United States.He and his family became US citizens in 1973.
He died in Boca Raton, Florida in 2004.
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