biography of Chaïm GOLDBERG (1917-2004)

Birth place: Kazimierz, Poland

Addresses: Flushing, NY

Profession: Painter, engraver

Studied: Art High School,Krakow, with Zbigniew Pronashko; Acad. Fine Arts-Warsaw, with Tadeusz Pruszkowski; Govt. Poland fellowship study in Paris, 1947.

Exhibited: Mus. Fine Art, Moscow, USSR, 1943; Nat. Mus. Fine Art, Warsaw, 1950-52; Mus. Yad Labanim, Israel, 1966 (solo); Lys Gallery, New York, 1967 (solo); St. John's Univ., New York, 1971 (solo); Am. Congress, Washington, DC, 1972. Awards: silver medal, Artists Guild-Novosibirsk, 1944.

Work: MMA; Nat. Collection Fine Art, Washington, DC; MoMA; MFA Boston; Mus. Petit Palais, Geneva, Switzerland. Commissions: monument, Polanica Zdroj, Govt. Poland, 1954; mosaic fountain, 1956 & embossed copper door, 1957, Hotel Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel; engravings, Govt. Israel, 1959-64.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, watercolors.

Sources: WW73; I Luden, articles, Art Magazine, (Israel, 1966); D. Shirey, review, New York Times, 1971; Isaac Bashevis Singer, Mem. Catalog (1972).