Henryk Hochman

Henryk Herszel Hochman (born 1879 or 1881 in Lublin - died 1942 or 1943 in Baczków near Bochnia, dates vary) was a Polish Jewish sculptor from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He was a student of Paweł Rosen in Warsaw, Konstanty Laszczka while in Kraków (1900-1906), and Auguste Rodin in France.

Hochman (centre) at an art opening in Kraków, January 1934, at the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts gallery

Work
Admission of Jews to Poland in the Middle Ages by Henryk Hochman, prob. 1907. Installed in 1996, Kazimierz Town Hall in Cracow.

Hochman specialized in figurative art such as sculpted portraits, the heads, and busts. Hochman is known for his bas-relief bronze entitled "Kol Nidre" (1907) in the former Town Hall of Kazimierz. He worked with marble, bronze, terracotta and majolica. During the Holocaust Henryk Hochman was deported to Bochnia Ghetto and murdered.[1][2][3][4] Many of his works were lost.

References
  1. The great Jewish cities of Central ... - Google Books. Retrieved 2009-11-14 – via Google Books.
  2. Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie ... - Google Books. Retrieved 2009-11-14 – via Google Books.
  3. Malarstwo i rzeźba Żydów Polskich w XIX i XX wieku, Volume 1, by Jerzy Malinowski
  4. The Jews of Cracow by Eugeniusz Duda, 1999, 127 pages
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