Oil on cardboard, signed p.g. "Erna Zollman".
Dimensions in frame: 47x40 cm (36x29 cm)
Ernestyna Zollman (Osielec 1900 - 1940 Cracow) painter associated with the Cracow art community. A member since 1937 and president of the Association of Jewish Artists. The association was established in the fall of 1931, as reported in the Zionist New Journal. By 1930, some 70 artists belonged to it. They included 11 women: Henryka Kerner, Anna Weingrün, Jadwiga Sperling, Gizela Nebenzahl-Wistreich, Hanka Landau, R. Matzner-Abelesova, Ernestine Zollman, Antonina Richter, Helena Grabschrift, Hanka Lewkowiczówna and Fryda Sterberg. The first exhibition was held at the Jewish Academic House at 3 Przemyslowa Street, with another on November 12, 1933 at 41 Krakowska Street in the premises of the Jewish community. Leon Lewkowicz, Abraham Neuman, Szymon Müller, Jakub Pfefferberg, Zygmunt Seiden, Antoni Soldinger, Wilhelm Wachtel, Artur Markowicz showed their works. They were joined by independents Samuel Finkelstein, Ignacy Hirszfang and Leopold Bachner. It was decided to donate the proceeds from the exhibition to the Committee to Aid Jewish Refugees from Germany.
