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Erno Erb (Polish, 1878-1943) - Market, Oil on Cardboard.Signed.Framed.50x70cm. 
Erno Erb (Lviv, Poland, 1878-1943) - Polish painter of Jewish origin who created during the modernism and the interwar period.He was born in 1878 in an assimilated family of Lvov Jews. Some sources give birth year 1890 as their date of birth. He spent almost all his life in Lviv and Truskavets. He painted urban motifs, genre scenes, marketplaces , characteristic types of Ukrainian peasants and Jews, landscapes and still life. His oil paintings, characterized by a rich texture of thick paint, are compared with the works of the German painter Max Lieberman. Erb repeatedly exhibited in Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv and Krakow and Warsaw Zacheta. In 1929 he participated in the Universal National Exhibition in Poznan and in 1932 in the Polish Art Exhibition in Buffalo. He probably died during the liquidation of the Lviv ghetto. His works are in the National Museum in Krakow, the collections of the Jewish Institute in Warsaw, the Historical Museum in Krakow, the Museum of Ukrainian Art in Lviv and the Lviv Gallery.source: Wikipedia.